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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>



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