Where did Disk Light go?

maclamb

macrumors 6502

Original poster

• Apr 2, 2002

• #1

OS 9 had this great utilty that sat on the menu bar and flashed what drive was being accessed and how (r/w).
I would LOVE something like that for OSX.
1. Is this possible- does the OS allows such hooks?
2. Anyone know of something like this?
3. If you write Mac OSX code and could *write* something like this- let me know...

 

sparkleytone

macrumors 68020

• Apr 2, 2002

• #2

altho i do not know HOW to program, I do know that that would be quite easy to write actually. The kernel can give you all that information if you create a pipe and an interface to interpret data. I have seen something similar to this in Linux, where all the IRQ's were represented on a barchart and whenever one was used (e.g. keyboard) it flashed.

 

eyelikeart

Moderator emeritus

• Apr 2, 2002

• #3

I wish the Disk Light was there...

but what I really miss is being able to display seconds in the time...of course, I've always used that as a telltale sign as to whether or not my system had crashed or frozen...which doesn't happen in X... 😛

 

Hemingray

macrumors 68030

• Apr 2, 2002

• #4

DiskLight was always bundled with NUM. My guess is they'll resurrect it in NSW 2 for MacOSX?