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- From: crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal)
- Subject: No Hard Disk light!!! Is this important???
- Message-ID: <crystal.721964965@glia>
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- Organization: University of Washington
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 01:49:25 GMT
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- It has just come to my attention that I have not seen the little green
- light flicker during activity on my hard disk for quite some time. I'd
- guess it has been at least a month now.
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- I first noticed when I changed Kermit versions that the light no longer
- flickered every few seconds during a download. I *thought* it was the
- fault of the new kermit.
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- Now I notice that the light is non-existant, though I can hear the
- disk, etc and everything seems to work well. (I *did* get one validation
- error a couple of months ago that spooked me, but that is all the
- excitement the disk has given me (aside from what is on it :>) )
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- Should I be concerned about this?? I think it's nice to know when the
- drive is being accessed. At least then I can *see* that something is
- loading and not just hanging.
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- It's a GVP IMPACT A2000-8/X SCSI card with a 40 meg Quantum attached to it.
- There is also 2 Meg of FASTRAM on the card.
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- I keep daily backups of changed files so I will lose very little if this
- is an imminent crash signal.
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- Could I have knocked something loose when I vacuumed the machine and the
- fan cage? I did that about a month or so ago. If such is the case, what
- did I loosen?
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- Could it be a *gasp* VIRUS???
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- Any help would be apreciated...
-
- Crystal
- ;>
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