Deneb Flashdrive booters... LED Activity Light?

[save2600]

Am now SCSI HD free and booting off a Flashdrive via Deneb is very slick (as another user or two has verbalised). But what are we to do with the HD activity light? In my case, an A2500... there is no obvious LED jumper on Deneb, so is there an alternative? I love using a thumbdrive internally instead of a real HD, but miss the flicker of the LED   :-)

[marcfrick2112]

Can't help much with the Deneb, but some thumbdrives have a built-in activity LED.. I have a 'Staples' el-cheapo brand thumbfrive that does. It's only 128MB, but hey it was free  :lol:
(Pretty soon they'll be giving thumbdrives away in boxes of Crackerjack  :-D

[save2600]

Yeah, all of my thumbdrives have an LED, so I may just end up prying one open and soldering a couple of leads to it.

BTW: anyone notice the two 'ground' holes of their internal USB port on Deneb is not soldered to the port? Doesn't seem to affect performance, just a curiosity. The port itself (I'm talking about the one directly mounted to the card) could stand to be more secure.  

[platon42]

save2600 wrote:

BTW: anyone notice the two 'ground' holes of their internal USB port on Deneb is not soldered to the port? Doesn't seem to affect performance, just a curiosity. The port itself (I'm talking about the one directly mounted to the card) could stand to be more secure.  

It should be for mechanical stability, otherwise the port easily could break off.

Feel free to fix it with a soldering iron yourself or send it back to Michael to do it. Maybe it slipped through the quality assurance process, a few cards of the second batch didn't have the port holes soldered (but they didn't get QA label at that stage either) -- do you have a card with serial number above or below 400?

[platon42]

save2600 wrote:
Am now SCSI HD free and booting off a Flashdrive via Deneb is very slick (as another user or two has verbalised). But what are we to do with the HD activity light? In my case, an A2500... there is no obvious LED jumper on Deneb, so is there an alternative? I love using a thumbdrive internally instead of a real HD, but miss the flicker of the LED   :-)

You could ask Michael Boehmer if some of the LEDs on the board can be controlled by the FPGA. If they can, it wouldn't be too hard to have a firmware that allows the LED to be triggered by software. However, the LED would then blink on any USB transfer activitity, not only on mass storage access...

Just a thought :-)

[save2600]

Thanks for the input and feedback Chris. Nothing like a quick solder job at the breakfast table to get the day started  :-)  She's all soldered up and rock solid now. Oh, and FYI: I've got a hand written serial number of 0740 on my card...