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In article <19980319163701204534@thebeast.demon.co.uk>,
listbox@thebeast.demon.co.uk (Steve Rogers) wrote:

> 1) Why does my Mac often take a look at whatever floppy disk is in the
> drive when I do something which has nothing to do with the floppy?  Is
> it something to do with Desktop files?

You'll find that every mounted disk (including hard disks and CD-ROMS)
gets looked at at strange times for no apparent reason.

What's happening is that the disk cache (the one you set with the
'Memory' control panel) has run out of space and the Finder desktop
needs to refresh the Finder screen.  It needs to read the disk to
find out how to draw the things on the desktop.  It may need to do
this even when you don't have any folders open from that disk --
the disk icon itself might be a custom icon.

Simon.
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