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Hard Drive Activity Light?
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Baninated
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Jul 18, 2005, 11:50 AM
 
Just wondering if there's anyway to hook up an LED to a hard drive activity light. I just got a fan controller, and it has an input for this function, it'd be nice to get it to work.

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Jul 18, 2005, 06:42 PM
 
Usually the hard drive has two pins that go directly to the LED. Check the pinout diagrams for your hard drive.
     
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Jul 18, 2005, 08:54 PM
 
http://www.hogheaven.com/mac/g4casemod.html

There's one example, but I have a quicksilver.
     
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Jul 19, 2005, 05:20 AM
 
Originally Posted by suvsr4terrorists
Just wondering if there's anyway to hook up an LED to a hard drive activity light. I just got a fan controller, and it has an input for this function, it'd be nice to get it to work.
And then ?

Get the fan started only on HD activity ?

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Jul 19, 2005, 07:00 AM
 
nah, it just has an LCD that shows when the HD is being accessed. No real reason other than having more of the LCD actually doing something.
     
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Jul 19, 2005, 09:13 AM
 
So, moding because YOU CAN ?!?!

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Jul 19, 2005, 10:39 PM
 
Well the fan controller thingie has a section for it.... so why not make it work? Otherwise it just sits there doing nothing.
     
   
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