HDD lights

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

I have a 23 bay server case, and it has 15 lights on the front of the case. 8 of these are for hard drives. I only have one plugged into the mobo. Does anyone know of any modification you can do to add the extra lights to the other hard drives? Right now, I have a Promise SX6000 RAID controller, and I'm getting a BroadCom BC4852D RAID controller next week. I currently have 8 hard drives in the system, but will be adding more...
--Tas.

 

[ghidu]

So, you want one led for every HD?
I've seen some mods done to the cables.
If you're willing to cut them, let me know and I'll look for the link.

 

[sharkeeper]

Server cases usually have SCSI drives. SCSI drives have an LED pinout for this purpose. Nothing like watching a wall of LED's reporting SCSI commands. It's hypnotic at times approaching acid levels. The clicking of accesses add to this. (rain stick effect) Only thing that beats this is ocean waves.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Ahhhhh. Okay. SCSI drives. Go figure. I was hoping there was a way to do it with IDE / SATA drives. Oh well though. Thanks for the info...
--Tas.

 

[nweaver]

Ever watch a Hitachi array in action?
Or our NetApps array has caused memory loss 😀

 

[sharkeeper]

Or our NetApps array has caused memory loss

What worse is when your collision light throbs from dim to bright like an incandescent lamp! That is quite scary.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

hehehehe. Nah. I just wouldn't mind setting up some kind of lights for the RAID / JBOD arrays. Atleast more than one at any rate. I hate having 15 lights on a case, and only two ever used... (pwr / hdd).
--Tas