A1200 HDD light stays on, any ideas?

[Phonic]

Standard A1200/KS3.0/WB3.0.

I have SFS installed with 2 partitions (2GB and 1GB) on a Maxtor 40GB set to Master.
CDROM drive on Slave - both drives are on a 40-pin cable.
No CDROM drivers installed.

When I boot into WB the HDD light stays on with the CDROM connected, my HDD partitions are validated.
With the Samsung CDROM drive the light will go out after a few minutes, the LG 16xDVD/CDRW I have connected now doesn't seem to want to let the light go out.
If I unplug the CDROM the HDD light behaves as normal.

Anyone have an idea of why this is happening or what I can do to stop it?

Thanks all.

[PMC]

Hi Phonic

As you'll probably already know, the HDD light will remain on if one of your partitions is invalidated - the OS will attempt to repair the damage to your filesystem.

It may well be that your system recognises that a new IDE device is fitted (check in HDToolBox), but the fact that OS3.0 doesn't have CD ROM support as standard may be causing a problem - I suspect your OS is trying to interrogate the CD ROM and possibly reorganise it, not knowing that it's a read only device (RW not withstanding - that will require an additional driver).

You could try and get hold of an IDE CD ROM utility on the Aminet or upgrade your OS to 3.1

[motorollin]

Is the LG drive *definitely* set to slave? I have had situations where a master/slave conflict has occurred, but one of the drives has worked.

--
moto

[Thomas]

That's normal. Unsupported drives do that. Install CD-ROM drivers and the LED will return to normal as soon as the drivers are activated.

Bye,
Thomas