Hard drive activity

[kilaueabart]

I have always understood that one should not reboot while a hard drive is active. But with no hard drive activity light on the X1000 and some apps occasionally loading very slowly (or maybe not at all), how do I know when it is safe to give up waiting and do a warm reboot?

[LyleHaze]

I can offer a few ways:

Instead of using the three-fingered salute, open a shell and use the reboot command.
"reboot fast sync" will give a quick reboot, and
"reboot sync" will give a deep reboot.

In both cases the sync keyword will make sure all drives are clear before doing the deed.

Another option is to add another LED to your case. I chose a bright blue LED (rectangular
works best for this) and I added leads and a connector. Once that was tested and working
one drop of superglue(cyanoacrylate) and I attached the LED to a flat spot on the back
of the power switch. Now I have red for power and flashing blue for drive activity.

I recently connected an additional LED to help me troubleshoot.. I might add that one to the
power switch bezel as well.

[ChrisH]

Or you can use the DiskLED Docky, you just need to add this to it's Tooltypes:
DEVICE=sb600sata.device,1

[zappa2009]

Or you use the POFF-Utilitiy from OS4depot.net -> http://os4depot.net/share/utility/shell/poff.lha

I use a seperate Blue-LED for Power and the orginal installed RED-LED for the Hard-Disk aktivity.

[danbeaver]

I put a red led in with the leads trapped by the front fascia so it sits behind the power button; this way it is removable with no residue.

[xenic]

I can offer a few ways:

Instead of using the three-fingered salute, open a shell and use the reboot command.
"reboot fast sync" will give a quick reboot, and
"reboot sync" will give a deep reboot.

I added a reboot menu item to my Workbench menus that calls a script which opens a simple requester to confirm that I really intended to reboot. I could have just as easily added it to AmiDock. Here is the script:

; Script to reboot AmigaDOS
UNSET resetchoice
SET resetchoice `RequestChoice TITLE "Reboot" BODY "Restart AmigaDOS?" GADGETS "OK" "Cancel"`
IF $resetchoice EQ 1
C:Reboot FAST SYNC
ENDIF
UNSET resetchoice

[Raziel]

@xenic

Or...if you want to have an all-in-one script and use the poweroff feature you can try POFF and this script

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Requestchoice >ENV:rcnum "Reboot or Power Off?" "Reboot (Fast/Hard) or power off the machine?" "Fast" "Hard" "Power Off" "Cancel"
IF $rcnum EQ 1
   Requestchoice >ENV:rcnum "Fast Reboot" "The Amiga X1000 will now reboot..." "OK" "Cancel"
      IF $rcnum EQ 1
         Reboot FAST SYNC
      ENDIF
   SKIP Exit
ENDIF
IF $rcnum EQ 2
   Requestchoice >ENV:rcnum "Hard Reboot" "The Amiga X1000 will now reboot..." "OK" "Cancel"
      IF $rcnum EQ 1
         Reboot SYNC
      ENDIF
   SKIP Exit
ENDIF
IF $rcnum EQ 3
   Requestchoice >ENV:rcnum "Power Off" "The Amiga X1000 is going to be powered off.*n*nHave patience as it will take some seconds." "OK" "Cancel"
   IF $rcnum EQ 1
      POff 5 SYNC
   ENDIF
ENDIF

Lab Exit

[trevordick]

Or you can use the DiskLED Docky, you just need to add this to it's Tooltypes:
DEVICE=sb600sata.device,1

Yes I use this on my machine and if you have both SATA and PATA drives you can also add that drive to the tooltypes in the DiskLED Docky

DEVICE=sb600sata.device,0
DEVICE=sb600ide.device,0

Trevor

[ggw]

Why is the LED in some pictures of the X1000 GREEN and other it is RED? These pictures are seen via a Google search whilst in the "Images" mode: "Amiga X1000"

[trevordick]

It starts "green" when the disk is first accessed, then changes to "red" which fades away, presumably when the disk activity has stopped.

Trevor