Re: [LIB] HDD LED stays on with Hitachi 80G drive on 100CT

[Paul Bristow]

Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 23:06:40 +0200
From: Paul Bristow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] HDD LED stays on with Hitachi 80G drive on 100CT
Paul Bristow wrote:

I just upgraded my Libretto 100CT to an 80G drive (the IBM/Hitachi 
Travelstar) and I find that with this drive, the hard disk activity 
LED stays on.  Anyone else had this problem with this drive?

Hmm.  I guess not.  David?  Yours is working fine?

I swapped the drive back with the old one - HDD LED works fine.

Swapped back to the Travelstar - HDD LED stays on.

I tried upgrading the BIOS to 8.10, it made no difference.

From power-on, the first drive access latches the HDD LED on.

I see from the archives that a few other people had a similar problem.  
Did anyone manage to fix it or are you just living with it?

My guess is that there is an incompatibility between the -DASP signal 
coming from the drive and the lib, and the output from the drive is 
latching low.  I'd put a 10k resistor in there to test this but I'm 
rather short of physical space in there, even for an SMD resistor...

--

Paul

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