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Re: cd drive light...

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From: Murray Shields
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 00:00
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Quentin Christensen wrote in message
<364577D4.5BEF7ECB@mynx.wow.aust.com>...
>Hi all,
>
>I have a Turando 48x cd rom drive.  The CD drive light goes on when
>there is a cd in the drive but not reading, and the hdd light goes on
>when a cd is being read (and when the hdd is being read).
>
>Does anyone know if there is a program, or some other way, to make it
>behave "normally" - ie, the cd drive light goes on when a cd is being

>read?


Nope - this is a CD-ROM drive dependant issue (only a firmware update would
fix this "issue" and they are generally not released for CD ROM drives).
Because the CD ROM is an IDE drive (an educated guess because you don't
actually say) then the IDE drive light is coming on because a CD (an IDE
device) is being read.

The CD ROM light is coming on when it does because that's the way the drive
was designed...

>It is just a small problem, but annoying nonetheless :)
>
>Thanks for any help.
>
>Quentin.
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Subject: Re: cd drive light...
Date: 1998/11/09
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