Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 08:41:12 -0800 From: Sherman Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 11:38:14 -0500, Ian Nixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> It was a holder for the light that came from the big, half-height > Quantum hard drives. > > The light itself, an LED, plugs into a two-wire socket on the > underside front of the hard drive.
It does have a Quantum 80MB Hard Drive, but no wires coming out of it...
I was just curious.
It doesn't plug into the HD. It plugs into the motherboard somewhere.
Sherman
The hard drive activity light plugs into the hard drive, not into the motherboard. Most hard drives have a set of jumpers for driving an activity light. If one connects an LED to those jumpers in the correct polarity the LED lights whenever there is hard drive activity. One can identify the correct jumpers by looking at the datasheet for each particular hard drive.
Jeff Walther
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