Re: Floppy light indicator

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From: Kai Voelcker
Date: Fri, 24 May 1991 19:03

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ggreenbe@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Gerald Greenberg) writes:
> There is a neat little program for another type of computer
> that makes the busy light of one of the floppy drives in a
> system blink whenever any drive, e.g. hard disk or ram disk,
> is accessed.  I think this is really great because I don't
> have my hard disk busy light hooked up...Is there such a
> program for msdos machines?
> --Gerry
> ggreenbe@rodan.acs.syr.edu

In Norton Utilities 5.0 there is "diskmon" which does the thing.
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Subject: Re: Floppy light indicator
Keywords: media access, busy light, drives
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