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bryan@cs.utexas.edu (Bryan Bayerdorffer @ Wit's End) writes: < lshaw@walt.cc.utexas.edu (logan shaw) writes: < =-After you have not used the disk for a period of 5 or 10 seconds, the < =-drive will decide to park itself. Thus, you don't have to do it yourself. < =-Sometimes you'll see the little light flash when it does this. < < Er, no. The hard disk light flashes briefly after a short timeout < (which is more like 3 seconds) because the disk validator is accessing the < drive, updating the bitmap for some partition. This is the Amiga system < software at work, not the drive controller. You are right (as any true Amigoid should know) about the disk validator, but I believe that Quantum drives do auto-park after a period of inactivity (somewhere around 2-3 minutes, I think). You can definitely hear the heads seek, but there is no 'drive busy' indicator, which implies that the activity is under the direction of the Quantum controller, not the Amiga. -- Chris (Insert phrase here) Seaman | ___-/^\-___ qatul batlh. cseaman@sequent <or> | //__--\O/--__\\ qatul Huch. ...!uunet!sequent!cseaman | // \\ qatul roj. The Home of the Killer Smiley | `\ /'