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Re: Hard Drive light



On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 05:12:22PM +0100, Colin Leroy wrote:
> On 22 Dec 2004 at 17h12, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> > Oh, and to add to this ... I prefer having it ON by default so users
> > avoid moving their laptop around while the HD is busy...
> 
> Is it dangerous?

It will always be a bit more dangerous to hit the laptop while the disks are
spinning and the heads are over the platter than when they are parked and the
disk still.

J

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