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Author:  crazyman03 [ Sat Oct 24, 2015 7:15 am ]
Post subject:  Change HDD Indicator Lights to activity lights?

EX485, 2GIG, Dual-core E5300 2.6. Server 2012 R2-64bit.

I tried the HPMSS LED mod to get the lights to come up to no avail. I keep getting a error 1001. I like the LED's doing their little dance but what I really want is actual HDD activity flashing. Call me old-fashioned but i like seeing the activity. Is there any other mod out there to do that? I've tried searching but cant find much support for the LED service or HDD activity mods.

Any ideas?


-Justin

Author:  Gardian [ Thu Jul 21, 2016 12:28 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Change HDD Indicator Lights to activity lights?

To answer your question: None that I am aware of.

I tried the Light mod on my win2012E and got it to work "mostly" took some drivers and the software and a few boots.
The lights will never work like the WHS V1 but I was able to get them to work somewhat.
For me it wasn't worth it and as far as hard drive activity, I'm not sure what you mean by that
Quote:
hard drive activity
Do you mean the bars where the harddrive bays are lit.
If so, I was able to get those to work, they would light up if a drive was in there, not light when a bay was empty, that was about all they would do.

I went a DIY for my win2012E software just because the lighting did not work anymore and I wanted to have room for more then 4 drives.

Hope this helps. Good Luck

P.S. The lights are one of the reasons why I am still running WHS V1 and have not switched over to win2012E :rofl:

Author:  Trerayat [ Thu Aug 10, 2017 10:06 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Change HDD Indicator Lights to activity lights?

I know what you guys think and tell others is very helpful.

Author:  Gardian [ Sat Aug 12, 2017 8:25 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Change HDD Indicator Lights to activity lights?

Thank you, we try to be of help.
The whole Home server Idea was an awesome Idea and only Microsoft Greed was able to kill it.
HP is still making great little home servers as far as the hardware goes, we just need somebody to come up with an OS that would work like WHS v1 did but built on the 64 bit.

Good Luck and enjoy.

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