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HDD LEDs?
In these modern times HDD do not have anywhere to mount an LED to see
individual drive activity. Does anyone know where one could connect an LED to a drive to see when it was busy? I'm particularly interested in Maxtor 250 and 300 gig DiamondMax drives. Thx! |
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HDD LEDs?
You can look at the Mojometer.
The MoJoMeter is a replacement for your standard hard drive activity LED. It draws all needed power from the HD connection on the motherboard to power the meter and the two LEDs built into it. http://www.retrosystem.com/hdmeter.shtml This meter has onboard circuitry that translates activity on your hard drive into a retro-meter display by moving the needle and activating the LEDs as needed. The circuit board is custom etched and all components are surface mounted and assembled by hand. Although I might ask, why do you want to have this LED? For more about computer hard drives, check out this article: http://www.build-your-own-computers....ard-drive.html |
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On 29 Dec 2005 02:54:48 -0800, "Gary Hendricks"
wrote: You can look at the Mojometer. The MoJoMeter is a replacement for your standard hard drive activity LED. It draws all needed power from the HD connection on the motherboard to power the meter and the two LEDs built into it. http://www.retrosystem.com/hdmeter.shtml Too high priced! -- Merry Christmas! http://www.illwillpress.com/xmas.html |
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"Gary Hendricks" wrote in message oups.com... You can look at the Mojometer. The MoJoMeter is a replacement for your standard hard drive activity LED. It draws all needed power from the HD connection on the motherboard to power the meter and the two LEDs built into it. http://www.retrosystem.com/hdmeter.shtml Very cool... but unfortunately too large for my needs. Although I might ask, why do you want to have this LED? This is an MCE PC (Gateway FMC-901) and it has no HDD indicators on the unit and no place on the mainboard to connect one. I'd like to plant a couple LED's into the front of the unit so I can tell when it's busy. For more about computer hard drives, check out this article: http://www.build-your-own-computers....ard-drive.html |
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On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 15:52:33 +0000, Noozer thoughtfully wrote:
"Gary Hendricks" wrote in message oups.com... You can look at the Mojometer. The MoJoMeter is a replacement for your standard hard drive activity LED. It draws all needed power from the HD connection on the motherboard to power the meter and the two LEDs built into it. http://www.retrosystem.com/hdmeter.shtml Very cool... but unfortunately too large for my needs. Although I might ask, why do you want to have this LED? This is an MCE PC (Gateway FMC-901) and it has no HDD indicators on the unit and no place on the mainboard to connect one. I'd like to plant a couple LED's into the front of the unit so I can tell when it's busy. For more about computer hard drives, check out this article: http://www.build-your-own-computers....ard-drive.html If there's no connectors on the FMC motherboard you'll have to look on the hard drives for connectors. Probably a computer parts store or Radio Shack might have an led light and connector you could attach to the hd. You could even attach LED mods to each drive. If there's no connector on the HD then you'll have to look for a software solution like http://www.tiler.com/FreeMeter/meters/ google "software drive meters" |
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Noozer wrote:
In these modern times HDD do not have anywhere to mount an LED to see individual drive activity. Does anyone know where one could connect an LED to a drive to see when it was busy? I'm particularly interested in Maxtor 250 and 300 gig DiamondMax drives. Thx! According to Maxtor's knowledge base: There is no way to connect an activity LED to a modern IDE hard drive (the last drive Maxtor manufactured with this feature was the 7245A/AT in 1994). Instead, this feature is present on the IDE interface controller. Such an LED will indicate activity on the IDE channel, not on a per drive basis. The relevant pins can be found either built into the motherboard (if the IDE interface is built onto the onboard chipset), or on a plug-in PCI card (if the IDE interface is not built onto the motherboard ie a Promise UDMA/100 card). The relevant motherboard or interface card manufacturer would be able to provide you with further details on connecting this LED. Probably not what you wanted, but there it is. -- John McGaw [Knoxville, TN, USA] http://johnmcgaw.com |
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On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 05:31:59 GMT, "Noozer"
wrote: In these modern times HDD do not have anywhere to mount an LED to see individual drive activity. Does anyone know where one could connect an LED to a drive to see when it was busy? I'm particularly interested in Maxtor 250 and 300 gig DiamondMax drives. Thx! There is no LED connector on the drive(s). The most likely alternative is to use a per-IDE-channel LED by connecting LED to the ATA interface pin 39, which appears to be an active-low pin. By putting 5V on LED anode, resistor on cathode and then resistor to pin 39 you might have it working, but I have not done this and suggest you do more Google research on "39 active LED ATA" Some sources indicate you will not need the resistor at all, but I'd probably measure the current before being comfortable assuming it's always true. |
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"Noozer" wrote in message news:jxKsf.207452$ki.5046@pd7tw2no... In these modern times HDD do not have anywhere to mount an LED to see individual drive activity. Does anyone know where one could connect an LED to a drive to see when it was busy? I'm particularly interested in Maxtor 250 and 300 gig DiamondMax drives. Thx! You can try hdi.exe, (Hard Drive Indicator) which puts an indicator in your system tray. It looks like a large LED and indicates the hard drive activity. You can select more than one drive to monitor, too. It's a very small zipped file, and for the life of me, through Google, I can't find the site for you, but there are a lot of freeware sites you can search through. Meanwhile I will continue to look. Dave C. |
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"Dave C." wrote in message
... "Noozer" wrote in message news:jxKsf.207452$ki.5046@pd7tw2no... In these modern times HDD do not have anywhere to mount an LED to see individual drive activity. Does anyone know where one could connect an LED to a drive to see when it was busy? I'm particularly interested in Maxtor 250 and 300 gig DiamondMax drives. Thx! You can try hdi.exe, (Hard Drive Indicator) which puts an indicator in your system tray. It looks like a large LED and indicates the hard drive activity. You can select more than one drive to monitor, too. It's a very small zipped file, and for the life of me, through Google, I can't find the site for you, but there are a lot of freeware sites you can search through. Meanwhile I will continue to look. Dave C. Noozer, found the download site for the Hard Disk Indicator at PCWorld: http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/fil...d,23027,00.asp Dave C. |
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Dave C. wrote:
"Dave C." wrote in message ... Noozer, found the download site for the Hard Disk Indicator at PCWorld: http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/fil...d,23027,00.asp Or go to: http://www.lonewolf.gr -- Bill Brought to you from beautiful Unalaska/Dutch Harbor, Alaska. N 53° 51.140' W 166° 30.228' (WGS 84) |
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