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10-02-2005, 04:18 PM
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Hard Drive light
My hard drive light that is one my case only shows the activity of my CD drive. The header on the motherboard says "IDE light" and I have a sata drive. Is there anyways of getting the light to go on when the sata harddrive spins and not the cd rom?
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10-02-2005, 08:03 PM
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if it is possible to connect that led up somewhere to show sata activity it would tell you in your motherboard manual where to leads are at on the mobo.
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10-02-2005, 09:10 PM
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what MB do you have? usually the cd/optical should not activate the HDD light.
btw do you have your cd connected to IDE1 (or was it 0) not sure the first IDE channel? |
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10-02-2005, 09:46 PM
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10-02-2005, 11:25 PM
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so how come my HDD light only comes on for when i access the HDD? (one IDE and one SATA) MB is K8nf-9, on my dell optiplex its the same lights when HDD is in use, same with old cyrix
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10-03-2005, 02:03 PM
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Optical drives (cd and DVD) have their own activity lights they don't need to use the HDD drive activity light.
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10-03-2005, 03:59 PM
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10-03-2005, 04:37 PM
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I have an Asus A8N-E. It doesn't have a SATA light or led or any such header. I have my cd rom drives on the primary ide lead... should they be on the second? thanks
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10-03-2005, 05:06 PM
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IMHO it doesn't really matter what channel your optical drives are on, but to prevent one of the drives from taking out all other drives on the same channel, it's best to put them on their own dedicated channel. I have both my opticals on my secondary PATA channel and my hard drive on my primary PATA channel, for instance.
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10-03-2005, 06:14 PM
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yeah i reckon thats the best setup, but there was another post somewhere saying its best to have a single HDD and optical on each IDE, that way you get the greatest speed when burning/ripping from one HDD to optical on alternate channels. Not sure if its true though
put he optical on IDE2 and see what happens? |
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10-03-2005, 06:50 PM
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well my harddrive is sata not pata so i can't put it on the primary pata channel. I'll try putting opticals on 2nd. keep the ideas coming
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10-03-2005, 11:23 PM
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If you don't have a hard drive on the IDE channels, the best setup would be one optical drive on each channel.
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10-04-2005, 11:19 PM
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OK nevermind... it was just coincidence. The hdd was always spinning at the same time as the cd rom i guess, but its fine now, thanks
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10-05-2005, 02:37 AM
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LOL i think everyone assumed you were not using the CDROM when you said the light was on!
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