From: Linus Nielsen Feltzing <linus_at_haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 21:49:36 +0200

true blast wrote:
> i have a question. i was thinking of modding my
> jukebox to change the red LED to be the hard drive
> activity indicator (tie it to pin 39 of the IDE
> interface). does this LED serve any useful purpose?
> i have never seen it turn on...this is why i ask.
> what do you guys think?
>
> or is there any way in software to patch something to
> do this? or is this pin of the IDE interface not tied
> to an I/O port or interrupt on the processor/hardware
> that could be detected from software?

The LED is software controlled. And we are using it for hard disk
activity in our ATA driver. Your prayers have been heard! :-)

/Linus
Received on 2002-05-08