HDD Light Stays On

[Allan]

Dual boot XP Pro and W2K. AMD on Abit KT7A board. Western and Seagate
drives. If boot W2k which is on slave drive (C HD light works properly. If
boot to XP Pro on master Drive (F HDD light stays on at all times - it
does flicker during read write, but does not go off. I have seen a posting
on this in another service, but they want $10 a month to read the solution.
Problem not serious, but irritating.
Any solutions?

thanks,
Allan

 

[Bob Day]

Dual boot XP Pro and W2K. AMD on Abit KT7A board. Western and Seagate
drives. If boot W2k which is on slave drive (C HD light works properly. If
boot to XP Pro on master Drive (F HDD light stays on at all times - it
does flicker during read write, but does not go off. I have seen a posting
on this in another service, but they want $10 a month to read the solution.
Problem not serious, but irritating.
Any solutions?

Dunno. Maybe. I had that problem once, and, after reversing
the HD light plug into the mainboard to no effect, I changed the
BIOS setting of my cdrom drive from "Auto" to "CDROM". For
whatever reason, that solved the problem.

-- Bob Day
http://bobday.vze.com

 

[Allan]

Bob,
If you mean in BIOS setup, I don't have a CDROM option for CD drives - only
Manual or Auto , same as the hard drives. Thanks for the reply though

Allan

 

[Bob I]

Perhaps there is "CD-ROM" selection under "Manual"

 

[Allan]

Bob and Bob
Interesting - no there is no selection for CD ROM anywhere, but selecting
Manual in CMOS settings instead of AUTO has no effect on CD ROM performance.
BUT - In Hardware Device Manager I disabled my CD ROM reader, which is
polled constantly as evidenced by its' activity lite and rebooted and now
the HDD lite works properly - so the problem was caused by the CD ROM.
Fortunately I also have a CD Writer and don't really use the old CD ROM
reader much anymore - it does vibrate and is not too reliable.

So it appears Bob Day had an answer after all

thanks to both of you
Allan

 

[Bob Day]

It's always helpful when someone gets back and posts
what actually solved a problem. Thanks!

-- Bob Day