Mobile Rack

[Bozo]

I have a Supermicro mobile rack similar to this.
It came with connectors so each of the five hard drives could have a led come on whenever the drive was active. My motherboard only has one hard drive led connector. Does anyone have any idea how I could get all five leds to work, independently.

 

[ddrueding]

On many of my RAID cards they have LED connectors per channel, but I have no idea how to make it work with the onboard stuff.

My only thought would be to write a custom bit of software that monitored for activity and sent it out the serial port header or something.

 

[Bozo]

I'm using the motherboard RAID.

I'm looking into accessing pin 11 on the SATA power connector. That is supposed to be the 'activity' pin.

 

[Mercutio]

There's a little freeware program called DiskMon that can be configured to show disk activity on a Windows machine. It might be what you're looking for, and it's the sort of thing that would go nicely on a tiny little LCD if you really needed it to be available all the time.

 

[Bozo]

There's a little freeware program called DiskMon that can be configured to show disk activity on a Windows machine. It might be what you're looking for, and it's the sort of thing that would go nicely on a tiny little LCD if you really needed it to be available all the time.

Cool! I'll look into it.

 

[time]

AFAIK, Diskmon only has one indicator, just like the hardware.

Have a look at the crude but free DKHardDrive-Light

Or for something perhaps a bit neater, Free HDD LED.