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From: shawn@pnet51.cts.com (Shawn Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple//GS Finder behavior
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Date: 19 Oct 88 15:25:13 GMT
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joseph@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Seymour Joseph) writes:
>
>I just received and assembled my Apple ][GS last night.  When I booted
>the included system disk (It is called version 4), loaded GS/OS and
>the finder I noticed that while the finder was sitting idle, there was
>a constant tic, tic, tic sound from the internal speaker.
>
>Later after I added the 5.25" disk driver to the system and rebooted,
>I noticed that the "in-use" light on the 5.25" drive would blink on
>and off with the ticking.  
>
>Is this normal behavior?  Why does the system do this?

Are you sure the sound is coming from the speaker?  Hehe... I had been
wondering about the same thing.  When I started up GS/OS with my Unidisk 3.5"
drive, I got that sound every time it checked the drive for a new disk.  When
I had both Unidisk drives hooked up, the sound doubled!  It double-ticks, once
for each Unidisk drive.

When I listened close, it sounded like the sound was coming from the drive
itself, as if the Finder is causing the read/write heads to move every time it
checks the drives.  The sound is kind of annoying and two things come to mind
when I put up with it for a time:

1) I should run an application quick to stop the noise.
2) I wish I had Apple 3.5" drives, which send interrupts or somesuch when a
   disk is inserted.

I can't think of any normal reason for the sound.  I don't think it's
reasonable to have to replace my disk drives with Apple 3.5" drives.  I would
like to, but I shouldn't have to, and I don't have the money anyway.

Keith, is this a conspiracy, a bug, or some bizarre feature?  :-)

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