Noozer said:
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.