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G5 Hard Disk activity light

Submitted by simon_C on January 7, 2006 - 12:22am. Hardware Hacks

ok people, i cant find how to do this anywhere.... i want to add a hard disk activity light to my single 1.8 G5. as you may or may not know the g5 uses SATA drives. it would be too easy if it was IDE.....

i was wondering if anyone knew how i could do this?

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There's an LED output on the

Submitted by drbob on January 7, 2006 - 12:32am.

There's an LED output on the SATA power connector. Not all drives support it though.

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could you or somebody find a

Submitted by simon_C on January 7, 2006 - 12:37am.

could you or somebody find a diagram or picture please? thank you much!

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My company makes sata backpla

Submitted by drbob on January 7, 2006 - 12:41am.

My company makes sata backplanes with the activity light. I'll ask the layout guy next week.

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ok cool thanks

Submitted by simon_C on January 7, 2006 - 12:56am.

ok cool thanks

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Pin 11 of the SATA power conn

Submitted by drbob on January 10, 2006 - 6:58am.

Pin 11 of the SATA power connector is the LED output. Not every drive supports it.

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