SATA Optical Drives and HDD LED Blinking

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I recently switched from a Lite-On PATA DVD Burner to a Lite-On SATA DVD
Burner and now the HDD LED is quickly flashing every second or so. Disable
the drive in Device Manager and the LED stops flashing, Enable it and it
flashes once a second again. Is there a setting on the Details Tab that will
eliminate the blinky-blink? Or another setting somewhere for SATA Optical
drives?

XP Pro SP2 fully updated
Abit IP35 Pro motherboard with Intel P35/ICH9R Chipset
RAID is Enabled and the Intel RAID drivers are installed
2 baby Raptors in RAID 0
1 250GB WD SATA 3.0 HDD
1 Lite-On SATA DVD Burner

Thank You in advance
 
Normal.

System needs to poll removable media drives every 1 sec
to see if media has changed. Your old ones were doing it
too, but the P-ATA controller chipset apparently didn't
flash the LED when it did it. The S-ATA chipset does.

If you disable Autorun for the optical drive (Google for dirs.)
it will stop but so will Autorun.

Personally I would live with it - it's not worth any trouble you
will go through to get it to stop.

"Master of None" <MasterofNone@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A79A2CF9-282F-4AE2-8D53-4601F71EC0FB@microsoft.com...
> I recently switched from a Lite-On PATA DVD Burner to a Lite-On SATA DVD
> Burner and now the HDD LED is quickly flashing every second or so. Disable
> the drive in Device Manager and the LED stops flashing, Enable it and it
> flashes once a second again. Is there a setting on the Details Tab that will
> eliminate the blinky-blink? Or another setting somewhere for SATA Optical
> drives?
>
> XP Pro SP2 fully updated
> Abit IP35 Pro motherboard with Intel P35/ICH9R Chipset
> RAID is Enabled and the Intel RAID drivers are installed
> 2 baby Raptors in RAID 0
> 1 250GB WD SATA 3.0 HDD
> 1 Lite-On SATA DVD Burner
>
> Thank You in advance
>
 
Thank You V Green.


"V Green" wrote:

> Normal.
>
> System needs to poll removable media drives every 1 sec
> to see if media has changed. Your old ones were doing it
> too, but the P-ATA controller chipset apparently didn't
> flash the LED when it did it. The S-ATA chipset does.
>
> If you disable Autorun for the optical drive (Google for dirs.)
> it will stop but so will Autorun.
>
> Personally I would live with it - it's not worth any trouble you
> will go through to get it to stop.
>
> "Master of None" <MasterofNone@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A79A2CF9-282F-4AE2-8D53-4601F71EC0FB@microsoft.com...
> > I recently switched from a Lite-On PATA DVD Burner to a Lite-On SATA DVD
> > Burner and now the HDD LED is quickly flashing every second or so. Disable
> > the drive in Device Manager and the LED stops flashing, Enable it and it
> > flashes once a second again. Is there a setting on the Details Tab that will
> > eliminate the blinky-blink? Or another setting somewhere for SATA Optical
> > drives?
> >
> > XP Pro SP2 fully updated
> > Abit IP35 Pro motherboard with Intel P35/ICH9R Chipset
> > RAID is Enabled and the Intel RAID drivers are installed
> > 2 baby Raptors in RAID 0
> > 1 250GB WD SATA 3.0 HDD
> > 1 Lite-On SATA DVD Burner
> >
> > Thank You in advance
> >
>
>
>
 
V Green wrote:
> Normal.
>
> System needs to poll removable media drives every 1 sec
> to see if media has changed. Your old ones were doing it
> too, but the P-ATA controller chipset apparently didn't
> flash the LED when it did it. The S-ATA chipset does.
>
> If you disable Autorun for the optical drive (Google for dirs.)
> it will stop but so will Autorun.

Yes. It's the 'auto insert notification' to deaktivate.
My little tool can do it:
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/autorunsettings.zip



Uwe
 
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