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From: tkld@castle.ed.ac.uk (K Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Internal drive whirrs when external in use
Keywords: disk whirr why?
Message-ID: <5824@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 20 Aug 90 17:08:07 GMT
Sender: tkld@castle.ed.ac.uk
Organization: EPCC, Edinburgh University
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  I've just got myself an external drive for my 1040STFM (a Kempston Daatadisk
- dunno what mechanism is inside the case - but it''s small, fast and does
90 tracks :-) I wasn't impressed with Kempston's new marketing arm "Pandaal
Marketing" though - it took them nearly 2 months to send me the drive)

  The problem (is it, maybe it isn't, but it's annoying) is that every time
I use drive b: , my internal drive a: starts spinning (but the light doesn't
come on). The only cure seems to be removing any disk from drive a:
  There is no problem reading data, but my internal drive is *so much louder*
than the new drive.

  Is this common ? Is it software, hardware, me ? Can it be fixed ?