P4C800 E Deluxe Raid/HDD Light ?????

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus (More info?)

Keith--I have two SATA Raptors in RAID 0 confiuration plus an IDE backup
drive using that same motherboard and the drive light only shows up when any
of the three drives are in operation. It is my understanding that LEDs are
polarized, so I wonder what happens if you reverse the lead from the LED to
the connector on the motherboard?

MikeSp
---------------------------------
"Keith & Brenda Norwick" <knorwick1@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:teKdneia7cz2MWDdRVn-ug@comcast.com...
> Hello,
> Just got done setting up my mobo with 2 Maxtor SATA 160GB Drives on
Intel
> Raid Controller, however, after setting everything up, now the hard drive
> light blinks about once a second?? I dont have anything up and going, so
Im
> not sure what its reading or writing to the drives, oh, and by the way I
> have the two drives set as raid 0. I just have never seen disk activity
> like this before for no reason. If anyone has seen this before, I would
> really appreciate any feedback, thanks again in advance!!
>
>
> Keith
>
> P4C800E Deluxe V1016
> P4 2.6 oc@3.0
> 2 Maxtor 160 SATA Drives
> 1 Maxtor 60GB Utra ATA 133
> Santa Cruse Sound Card
> Asus Geforce 3
> 1GB Kingston DDR 433
>
>

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus (More info?)

In article <seCdnT7ZlLo5JmDdRVn-gQ@comcast.com>, "Michael S."
<mspurgeon5@comcast.net> wrote:

> Keith--I have two SATA Raptors in RAID 0 confiuration plus an IDE backup
> drive using that same motherboard and the drive light only shows up when any
> of the three drives are in operation. It is my understanding that LEDs are
> polarized, so I wonder what happens if you reverse the lead from the LED to
> the connector on the motherboard?
>
> MikeSp

No. If the LED is lighting, then it is connected correctly (i.e.
polarity is correct).

I suspect the OP has the OS installed on the disk, and we are
seeing some Win2K/WinXP file caching/swapping/futzing that a
modern OS likes to do. On my Win2K machine, I was annoyed to see
this kind of activity, and I tried all manner of hacks to stop it.
I never succeeded. (Since the machine had a lot of RAM, I even
tried putting swap on a RAM disk - a pretty absurd idea, and
even that didn't stop it, at least proving it probably wasn't
some kind of swapping or VM activity, but was related to file
caching. Files are cached in memory, and are "dribbled out" to
disk once a second. That is the best I could figure out on
my own. It used to happen a lot while downloading from the
internet.) Maybe it is some kind of indexing activity...

You might try using the RAID 0 as a data only array, and then
maybe the flashing will stop. Put the OS on another disk.

Just a guess (as my understanding of Win OSes is pretty poor).

Maybe someone who knows how it works can explain it :-)
Paul

> ---------------------------------
> "Keith & Brenda Norwick" <knorwick1@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:teKdneia7cz2MWDdRVn-ug@comcast.com...
> > Hello,
> > Just got done setting up my mobo with 2 Maxtor SATA 160GB Drives on
> Intel
> > Raid Controller, however, after setting everything up, now the hard drive
> > light blinks about once a second?? I dont have anything up and going, so
> Im
> > not sure what its reading or writing to the drives, oh, and by the way I
> > have the two drives set as raid 0. I just have never seen disk activity
> > like this before for no reason. If anyone has seen this before, I would
> > really appreciate any feedback, thanks again in advance!!
> >
> >
> > Keith
> >
> > P4C800E Deluxe V1016
> > P4 2.6 oc@3.0
> > 2 Maxtor 160 SATA Drives
> > 1 Maxtor 60GB Utra ATA 133
> > Santa Cruse Sound Card
> > Asus Geforce 3
> > 1GB Kingston DDR 433
> >
> >

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus (More info?)

Doesn't XP, being basically paranoid, periodically check to see if
its hard drives are still there?

Keith & Brenda Norwick wrote:
>
> Just got done setting up my mobo with 2 Maxtor SATA 160GB Drives on Intel
> Raid Controller, however, after setting everything up, now the hard drive
> light blinks about once a second??

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus (More info?)

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 21:09:47 -0400, nospam@needed.com (Paul) wrote:

> > Keith--I have two SATA Raptors in RAID 0 confiuration plus an IDE backup
> > drive using that same motherboard and the drive light only shows up when any
> > of the three drives are in operation. It is my understanding that LEDs are
> > polarized, so I wonder what happens if you reverse the lead from the LED to
> > the connector on the motherboard?
> > MikeSp
>
> No. If the LED is lighting, then it is connected correctly
> (i.e. polarity is correct).
>
> I suspect the OP has the OS installed on the disk, and we are
> seeing some Win2K/WinXP file caching/swapping/futzing that a
> modern OS likes to do.

Probably indexing the drives.
Turn off the indexing service!
I always had to do this after installing OS.