tkld@castle.ed.ac.uk (K Davidson) (08/21/90)
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 ?
exspes@gdr.bath.ac.uk (P E Smee) (08/21/90)
In article <5824@castle.ed.ac.uk> tkld@castle.ed.ac.uk (K Davidson) writes: > 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: > Is this common ? Is it software, hardware, me ? Can it be fixed ? This is normal. The drives share a single motor-on line, and both drives respond to the motor-on signal. (I presume that the ultimate reason is so that you can spin-up a drive before you select it, to get it up to speed.) The quick answer is that it can't be fixed, I suspect, unless you want to add some more (hairy) circuitry to the ST and probably modify TOS as well. Or, in other words, no, you learn to live with it. -- Paul Smee, Computing Service, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1UD, UK P.Smee@bristol.ac.uk - ..!uunet!ukc!bsmail!p.smee - Tel +44 272 303132