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If I come up with something that may be interesting to you, I’ll be sure to let you know. Perhaps Helge has already provided that, I’ve yet to check. Tonight, for no real reason I found this site and while I haven’t USED it yet, with the source I’m hoping to create a “one stop shop” kinda thing to do exactly that. So I always planned to find a way to do that programmatically but it’s one of those things I never got around to doing. And now you have to go out of your WAY to see if a drive is DOING … well, “anything.” So cut to “today” and I’ve always wondered why the drive LED was all but forgotten. If nothing else, I didn’t have blisters from the molten solder I seemed to always drip onto my hands.
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#DISK LED FREE CODE#
After that, the computer world more-or-less became my world, and the EE I had just gotten was, for me, quite boring and it was easier to “play” around with code than to rebuild a hardware component. It turned out that I hadn’t set one of the parameters correctly so it DID blink, once, but afterwards it didn’t because the data was already in the system didn’t need to keep re-reading it. I remember trying to emulate some disk activity but it just wouldn’t WORK. Included were “terminals” connected to the “Main Frame” (See? It was just that long ago - the late 70’s) to printers or to tape drives, and of course, disks.
#DISK LED FREE DRIVER#
There I discovered the driver that, essentially did everything for every device. And actually, “back then,” I taught myself to write CODE (In a proprietary language called “SPL”) because I was in a class and they had actual print-outs of the entire OS. If things were running quite slow, again you could see if that LED was blinking like mad or showed you a disk was getting a beating because it was on, solid. If a disk SHOULD be “doing something” you could glance at the disk to see if so. So “back in the day” NO ONE would think that little blinking ID (LED) on EACH disk wasn’t needed. Now, I “Grew up” in the era when a disk drive was THE thing to worry about when you pay $60,000 or more to hold 320MB in a box almost as big as the home dryer, you kinda hope your disks are behaving. I have to agree with Daevid Vincent (Above.)