Re: Help : Eesox IDE CD drive and Sound Sampling

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From: Liam Gretton
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 00:00

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On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Ian Molton wrote:

> Colin McQueen <cmcqueen@argonet.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Whenever I have a CD player app eg.
> 
> > SampleCD by Paul Wilkinson RTracker by Ian Clark
> 
> > my hard disc light flickers regularly.  it goes about 1 flash per sec.
> 
> This is normal, since it's not your harddisc light. it's the IDE bus
> activity light. the CDROM shares the bus, so the light flashes every so
> often when the computer reads the track position etc.

I've just replaced my ageing Cuman 2x CD ROM with a new Clares 12x model, 
and now I've just noticed that the LED flashes too. I'm *sure* it didn't 
do this before.

Still, not to worry.

-- 
Liam Gretton                                              ljg@star.le.ac.uk
CCD Group, X-Ray Astronomy Dept,                  liam@binliner.demon.co.uk
Leicester University                             phone +44 (0) 116 252 3501
Leicester LE1 7RH, UK                            fax   +44 (0) 116 252 3311

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