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Solve : How do I know if my hard drive is reading or writing?? |
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Answer» I have research this using google, bing, and yahoo and can't find an answer to this. If anyone can help I would appreciate it.Why do you need to know this? What are you trying to do?There is usually a hard drive activity LIGHT on the front of the computer. If the light is on, it's READING or writing.From the subject line I took the OP to be asking how to determine whether the HD was reading OR writing. For many, many years I can't remember a HD not having an activity light so I thought there was more to the question than just an activity light.Quote from: rthompson80819 on February 14, 2011, 02:35:37 PM From the subject line I took the OP to be asking how to determine whether the HD was reading OR writing. That was my first thought, too. The answer in that case would have to be "you can't". A hard drive can SWITCH from reading to writing (and back again) in a very short time, measured in milliseconds, much too short for a human to perceive. Quote I can't remember a HD not having an activity light I've never seen a hard drive that did have an activity light. I've seen plenty of motherboards that have a connector that you plug a front panel LED into. Quote from: Salmon Trout on February 14, 2011, 03:47:25 PM
That's what I meant, I just didn't word it properly.Quote from: Salmon Trout on February 14, 2011, 03:47:25 PM I've never seen a hard drive that did have an activity light. I've seen plenty of motherboards that have a connector that you plug a front panel LED into. I have two hard drives that have activity lights directly on them. They are very old, however (50MB... yes MB) ... over 25 years old. This utility CLAIMS to provide indicators (on the PC Screen no doubt) indicating Read,Write,ReadWrite, and idle status indicators: http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/DriveGLEAM.shtml My opinion is that you may never know if it is reading or writing... Quote from: robinson100 on February 17, 2011, 08:59:57 AM My opinion is that you may never know if it is reading or writing... It could be doing first one then the other several hundred times a second and you would not know which, since human senses don't work fast enough, so the notion of knowing when it "is" writing or reading makes no SENSE. |
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