smithju@motcid.UUCP (Justin A. Smith) (05/24/90)
grege@gold.GVG.TEK.COM (Greg Ebert) writes: >In article <916@cameron.egr.duke.edu> wdp@dukee.egr.duke.edu (Dev Palmer) writes: >>I recently installed a Seagate ST225 in my XT clone. It works great, but I >>can't get the drive activity light to come on. >> >>None of the docs I have show any jumpers for "drive light". Anybody out there >>have any illuminating insights? >The best way is to monitor the drive select signals on the drive control >connector (34 pin). Pin 26 is Drive 'A', pin 28 is 'B'. Both signals are >active-low. If they are driven by a 74XX part, hang the LED right on the >signal, with a 470 ohm resistor to +5 volts. >If you don't want to muck-around with the drives, try these: ...deleted.... a much simpler solution (if you dont want to muck around with drives) is to use a small PD TSR called HDFLASH, I think its on my BBS, it puts a 'smiley face' in the top right hand corner of the screen everytime the disk is accessed. It prints an inverted one for writes, (one step better than a led) This program was originally intended for hard card users who dont have disk leds, but i found it usefull when my AT was under my desk and i could not see the front. If you want any more info drop me a line. Justin Smith -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Justin Smith SYSOP- Orange Crush BBS (708) 359-5379 24 Hours USRobotics HST14400/V.32 Email UUNET smithju@motcid.uu.net INTERNET motcid!smithju@chg.mcd.mot.com