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I have a KT7A-Raid system (Raid not currently used). I recently installed a
Hitachi Deskstat 80 mb hard drive. The HD light seems to be always on, even
when the system is not used. Feeling the drive seems to indicate it is
rotating. Is this a problem? At first I thought it was a large XP
transfer, but I set the swap file size to zero with no effect. The system
seems to work fine. Any thoughts?
Tom

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On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 14:09:39 -0400, "Tom" <atspang@comcast.net> wrote:

>I have a KT7A-Raid system (Raid not currently used). I recently installed a
>Hitachi Deskstat 80 mb hard drive. The HD light seems to be always on, even
>when the system is not used. Feeling the drive seems to indicate it is
>rotating. Is this a problem? At first I thought it was a large XP
>transfer, but I set the swap file size to zero with no effect. The system
>seems to work fine. Any thoughts?
>Tom
>

check if it's set to optimise the hdd in the background

dr ratt

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did you try flipping the HD LED connector 180 around?

--

Thomas Geery
Network+ certified

Due to a rat in da hood,
no longer running servers on Cox...

(even though someone turned me in,
what can I expect for violating the AUP, right?)


"Tom" <atspang@comcast.net> wrote in message
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>I have a KT7A-Raid system (Raid not currently used). I recently installed a
>Hitachi Deskstat 80 mb hard drive. The HD light seems to be always on, even
>when the system is not used. Feeling the drive seems to indicate it is
>rotating. Is this a problem? At first I thought it was a large XP
>transfer, but I set the swap file size to zero with no effect. The system
>seems to work fine. Any thoughts?
> Tom
>

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TomG wrote:
|
| did you try flipping the HD LED connector 180 around?
|

If it were backward wouldn't the LED never come on?

How about turning off the Indexing Service (or, at least, disabiling
indexing on the properties sheets for the hard disks)?

Lurking Rat in 'Da Hood® -
Jef

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On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 04:16:20 GMT, "Lurking Rat in 'Da Hood®"
<jefn_REMOVE_YOUR_SHORTS_@sbcglobal.net> wrote:


>If it were backward wouldn't the LED never come on?

No, it would always be on when there is no disk activity. I've made
this mistake before.

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Fisher wrote:
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| >If it were backward wouldn't the LED never come on?
|
| No, it would always be on when there is no disk activity. I've made
| this mistake before.

Hi Fisher -

I disagree with you ..

From: http://web.mit.edu/~awozniak/Public/6.121/LED.html :

| You must also know that an led has polarity. This means that the
| positive and negative terminals must be connected correctly for
| it to operate properly. As you see in the diagram below, if the
| polarity is reversed, the LED will NOT light.

Also note: 'Out of the box' the longer leg of the LED is the positive
terminal. This doesn't serve much use when connecting case connectors
(which are usually designated by a '+' or dot on the positive connector).

Lurking Rat in 'Da Hood® -
Jef

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I have seen it go both ways, where it never comes on and I have also seen it
where it is always on. you wouldn't think the reverse polarity would do
that but I had a SCSI add-in card that would do that when I connected the
LED to the card backwards.

--

Thomas Geery
Network+ certified

Due to a rat in da hood,
no longer running servers on Cox...

(even though someone turned me in,
what can I expect for violating the AUP, right?)


"Lurking Rat in 'Da Hood®" <jefn_REMOVE_YOUR_SHORTS_@sbcglobal.net> wrote in
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> TomG wrote:
> |
> | did you try flipping the HD LED connector 180 around?
> |
>
> If it were backward wouldn't the LED never come on?
>
> How about turning off the Indexing Service (or, at least, disabiling
> indexing on the properties sheets for the hard disks)?
>
> Lurking Rat in 'Da Hood® -
> Jef
>
>

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On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 18:26:43 GMT, "Lurking Rat in 'Da Hood®"
<jefn_REMOVE_YOUR_SHORTS_@sbcglobal.net> wrote:


>Hi Fisher -
>
>I disagree with you ..

Disagree all you want. I've seen it happen - more than once.

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TomG wrote:
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|I have seen it go both ways, where it never comes on and I have also
| seen it where it is always on. you wouldn't think the reverse polarity
| would do that but I had a SCSI add-in card that would do that when I
| connected the LED to the card backwards.
|

Tom -

Interesting.

I always read that LEDs wouldn't work when connected backward. It was the
reason I went looking for a citation to back up what I'd read before I
posted when challenged further up in the thread.

I'll have to ask my brother, who designs hard disk logic circuits for a
living, for his take on the subject.

Lurking Rat in 'Da Hood® -
Jef

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yeah, it would appear to be pretty straightforward... an LED has polarity
and that is that. however, I wondered if there wasn't something going on
with the circuitry on the SCSI card or something, that was contributing to
the cornfusion.

--

Thomas Geery
Network+ certified

Due to a rat in da hood,
no longer running servers on Cox...

(even though someone turned me in,
what can I expect for violating the AUP, right?)


"Bird Janitor" <jefn_REMOVE_YOUR_SHORTS_@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> TomG wrote:
> |
> |I have seen it go both ways, where it never comes on and I have also
> | seen it where it is always on. you wouldn't think the reverse polarity
> | would do that but I had a SCSI add-in card that would do that when I
> | connected the LED to the card backwards.
> |
>
> Tom -
>
> Interesting.
>
> I always read that LEDs wouldn't work when connected backward. It was the
> reason I went looking for a citation to back up what I'd read before I
> posted when challenged further up in the thread.
>
> I'll have to ask my brother, who designs hard disk logic circuits for a
> living, for his take on the subject.
>
> Lurking Rat in 'Da Hood® -
> Jef
>
>

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TomG wrote:
|
| yeah, it would appear to be pretty straightforward... an LED has
| polarity and that is that. however, I wondered if there wasn't
| something going on with the circuitry on the SCSI card or
| something, that was contributing to the cornfusion.
|

I feel better now.

Makes me wonder if some LEDs aren't really LEDs. I've been following a
thread in another group where a notebook drive (also Hitachi) has its LED on
all the time. I don't think there's any way the user in that case could be
reversing the connector to the HDD LED. Confusing things further, the
notebook is running Windows 98 .. so there's no indexing service running in
the background to muck things up.

Speaking of cornfusion... I'm hungry. Corn Fritters! Mmmmmm....

Lurking Rat in 'Da Hood® -
Jef

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Last I looked through the radio shack catalog you can buy LEDs that
have two LEDs inside one package. One LED lights with one polarity
and the other LED lights with the other polarity. Usually this is for
bi-color LEDs but it sounds like they are using them for hd indicators
as well. I think if one takes a closer look, at a backwards installed
LED, that the LED will still flash (off) on hard disk drive accesses.

Is there a pink floyd song about rats-in-da-hood, or is it just pigs?

Forrest

Motherboard Help By HAL web site:
http://home.comcast.net/~mobo.help/

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HAL9000 wrote:
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| Last I looked through the radio shack catalog you can buy LEDs
| that have two LEDs inside one package. One LED lights with
| one polarity and the other LED lights with the other polarity.
| Usually this is for bi-color LEDs but it sounds like they are using
| them for hd indicators as well. I think if one takes a closer look,
| at a backwards installed LED, that the LED will still flash (off) on
| hard disk drive accesses.
|
| Is there a pink floyd song about rats-in-da-hood, or is it just pigs?
|
| Forrest
|
| Motherboard Help By HAL web site:
| http://home.comcast.net/~mobo.help/
|
|

Hi Forrest -

Makes sense. I have an external USB hard disk enclosure where the LED is
green when power is applied and red when the drive is being accessed. I'll
have to open it up one of these days and see if it's two LEDs offset from
one another or if it's really one LED.

As for Rats in 'Da Hood... probably more Frank Zappa.

Lurking Rat in 'Da Hood® -
Jef

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"Fisher" <fisher@no_email.here> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 18:26:43 GMT, "Lurking Rat in 'Da Hood®"
> <jefn_REMOVE_YOUR_SHORTS_@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>
> >Hi Fisher -
> >
> >I disagree with you ..
>
> Disagree all you want. I've seen it happen - more than once.

I call 'bullshit'

Sorry - not physically possible.

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