> On 29 Mar 2006, at 18:03, Marco Peereboom wrote: > > You show me a SATA drive that has an LED first :-) > > Fair point. The caddy does claim to have a light, but if bioctl only > talks to SAFTE enclosures and backplanes for this sort of thing, it's > not usable for this purpose.
To save cost SATA HDD vendors pulled the activity LED. So whatever LED you have wasn't put on there by the HDD vendor.