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From: matthews@umd5.umd.edu (Mike Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Drive question
Message-ID: <5948@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: 15 Jan 90 15:59:13 GMT
References: <1871@mrsvr.UUCP>
Reply-To: matthews@umd5.umd.edu (Mike Matthews)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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In article <1871@mrsvr.UUCP> krieg@jupiter.UUCP (Andrew Krieg) writes:
>I have had this weird quirk in my ST system ever since I got it (3 years ago)
>and I am wondering if it is normal.  I have a 520 ST, a single sided disk and

It is.

>a double sided disk.  The double sided disk is drive A and the single sided
>disk is drive B.  Whenever I access drive A, drive B spins also.  Should this
>be?  Is this harmful?  The drive light on B does not come on, but if I have a
>disk in there, I can hear it spinning.  If I access drive B, drive A does not
>spin.  Anyone know what is going on?
>
>=	Andrew Krieg				The Marvel Historian	=
Nothing to worry about; that's what they all do.

Why, I don't know.

Mike