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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Minix/ST Floppy disk blues
Keywords: Motor on always
Message-ID: <1875@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 9 Jan 89 11:15:53 GMT
References: <357@lzaz.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <357@lzaz.ATT.COM> hcj@lzaz.ATT.COM (HC Johnson) writes:
>I just made a major discovery.  My floppy drives (with a disk in them) are
>spinning all the time I run Minix.  Properly, until I do a floppy disk
>operation in Minix.  This can be days at a time.

Is this also true on the PC?  My machine has a fan that makes so much noise
that I can't tell when the drives are on or off.  The light certainly goes
out, but that doesn't mean anything.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)