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From: dmb@wam.umd.edu (David M. Baggett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Problems with drive light....
Summary: Don't panic
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Date: 9 May 90 04:14:43 GMT
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In article <1377.264736da@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> tmwhitehead@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu writes:
>I've been noticing a problem with the disk drive on my 1040 ST.
>
>When it's been on for a little while, the drive light comes on, and stays on. 

I admit it; it's my fault!

The drive light problem is caused by either click.prg, beep.prg, or both.
(Probably both.)  It's completely harmless, but I admit it's somewhat
disturbing.

Good news, though:  I think I've fixed the problem.  I'm going to test the 
new versions of the programs for a few days, then post them to terminator 
again.

>One other thing, when I boot, after it loads all of the auto programs, the
>desktop appears, but it remains white for a few seconds before it turns green. 
>This didn't use to happen before.  It used to go to green right away.

Are you running digivec also?  Digivec waits a couple seconds after GEM
loads to install its vectors.  This could be some bizarre side effect.
(I doubt it, though.)

Also, wait version of TOS are you running? 

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Dave Baggett
dmb@wam.umd.edu