SATA and HD LED?

[kwmarc]

Ive got an Asus K8V motherboard and a WD120GB SATA hard drive. I have tried plugging the hard drive LED connector from the front panel to the board in both directions, but i still do not get a HD LED light. If i plug it in one way it doesnt come on at all. If i plug it in the other way (meaning letters facing down or letters facing up) i get the light coming on during post but as soon as windows XP starts loading it goes off; never to be seen again. Is a SATA hard drive just not compatible with a HD LED since it is sitting off a raid controller? Should i try reloading drivers or what. Right now the drive shows up in windows under the "VIA RAID SCSI device".

Any ideas/experiences?

 

[NleahciM]

Originally posted by kwmarc
Ive got an Asus K8V motherboard and a WD120GB SATA hard drive. I have tried plugging the hard drive LED connector from the front panel to the board in both directions, but i still do not get a HD LED light. If i plug it in one way it doesnt come on at all. If i plug it in the other way (meaning letters facing down or letters facing up) i get the light coming on during post but as soon as windows XP starts loading it goes off; never to be seen again. Is a SATA hard drive just not compatible with a HD LED since it is sitting off a raid controller? Should i try reloading drivers or what. Right now the drive shows up in windows under the "VIA RAID SCSI device".

Any ideas/experiences?

Some motherboard HD activity headers only register activity from the ATA drives. If you care enough about it - look up the datasheet for your SATA chip - find the activity LED pin - solder an optoisolator to that - and attach your LED to the optoisolator. But at that point you have to ask yourself if it's really worth it...

 

[kwmarc]

haha, yea i agree, but i would think that newer boards would support both. especially those with sata, knowing that people will have sata drives connected to them.