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From: prw@meccsd.MECC.MN.ORG (Paul R. Wenker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple//GS Finder behavior
Message-ID: <1067@meccsd.MECC.MN.ORG>
Date: 20 Oct 88 13:29:31 GMT
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Reply-To: prw@meccsd.UUCP (Paul R. Wenker)
Organization: MECC
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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?


Finder periodicly makes status calls to every drive to check for
inserted disks.  This usually isn't noticable on AppleDisk 3.5 drives,
but with the UniDisk 3.5 and the 5.25" drives the drive light will
blink noticably.  This is normal behavior for Finder.


-Paul Wenker			prw@meccsd.MECC.MN.ORG
-MECC, Technical Services