[G4] Activity light

Alex alist at sprint.ca
Sat Feb 7 05:18:47 PST 2004


On Saturday, Feb 7, 2004, at 06:06 Canada/Eastern, Alain wrote:

> I own a G4 and I bought a Firewire enclosure for 4 drives.
> I'm ready to install 4 IDE IBM DeskStar drives.
>
> I would like to "see" the activity of each drive.
> The enclosure has 4 diods (with nude cables) the allow it.
>
> Where do I connect this cables on each drive ?

IBM sold its HD business to Hitachi, so drive info and specs should be 
available at <http://www.hgst.com>. However, it's unlikely you'll find 
what you want. For these drives, the controller is supposed to provide 
the drive activity LED signal. Check out your enclosure manual.

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