Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 22:26:11 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au> To: rick hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HDD led stops working after FreeBSD...? Message-ID: <19990402122612.14916.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.990331133658.19439A-100000@dsinw.com> of Wed, 31 Mar 1999 13:38:19 PST References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.990331133658.19439A-100000@dsinw.com>
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I promise to drop this thread now ... > > Okay you guys, this is fascinating -- but why do you care about > > LEDs on your disks? I haven't had a (visible) LED on a disk for > > at least ten years and have never wished I had. Is there some > > reason for wanting them? > > So that there is some illumination when you're hacking late at > night, everybody is asleep and it's totally dark. That way you don't step > on the plates leftover from dinner sometime last month...:) I counted the visible non-disk LEDs in my office when I walked in there at 0300 today -- there are 47 of them and they provide plenty of light for me to find my desk and wake up my screens without needing any more :-) -- Greg Black <gjb@acm.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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