How to fix HD LED in cheap CF 44 adapters - Page 9

rabidgerry · 26 May 2020, 14:13

So weirdly my Floppy drive is working again. Good!

However the HD LED is gone again. Given that it worked briefly would this seem more like an issue with the LED connection to the mother board, the LED Board itself or the CF adapter? As stated before the CF Adapter LED activity light works no problem.

I just want to see if I need to buy a new LED or there is some other issue.

lesta_smsc · 27 May 2020, 03:09

If it's intermittent then you may have issue with IDE connection. This could be the wire or the IDE connector on motherboard. Unfortunately without testing either using an alternative motherboard and/or new IDE cable it will be trial and error.

rabidgerry · 27 May 2020, 11:30

Quote:

Originally Posted by lesta_smsc

If it's intermittent then you may have issue with IDE connection. This could be the wire or the IDE connector on motherboard. Unfortunately without testing either using an alternative motherboard and/or new IDE cable it will be trial and error.

Intermittent may be an over statement. It literally has never worked until last week when I was doing another modification. Then it worked for about ten minutes until I used the floppy drive and then after that it stopped worked.

IDE issue, cable is not even a year old yet. Wouldn't I experience other issues with the hardrive if it were this? Just asking as I have no clue. I was expecting something simple.

rabidgerry · 30 May 2020, 21:07

So not content with the issue being IDE related I opened my Amiga this evening to perhaps play around with the plug of the LED and wires whilst the Amiga case was open. I rebooted and what not without a screen attached to just try and get some HD activity. I thought perhaps messing with the wires might shake a loose connection or something. Anyways after a few tries I noticed when holding the LED board that the HD light came on once and that was it. I was then unable to replicate this for sometime. Then after another few attempts I think I was pushing a little pressure on the HD LED and then light lit and replicated HD activity as the CF adapter LED did. Then it stopped when I let the pressure off. This prompted me to just reheat the solder on that particular LED and now it seems to work as intended. I thought it was perhaps something so simple but I couldn't be sure as I had no other LED board to try with it. I may swap this one out now for a nice RED ORANGE and GREEN one. I shall see.

toples50 · 14 May 2021, 22:42

Any suggestion for an ide to cf adapter that works normally?

DJBase · 14 May 2021, 23:16

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Originally Posted by toples50

Any suggestion for an ide to cf adapter that works normally?

https://www.amigaworld.de/hardware/a...f-ide-adapter/

Alien8 · 01 July 2021, 18:52

Can anyone advise me on the connections to make on the adapter in the image?

spawnerbr · 15 October 2023, 16:31

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Originally Posted by Alien8

Can anyone advise me on the connections to make on the adapter in the image?

I have this option too and dunno how to mod this.

30 May 2020, 21:07	#164
rabidgerry Registered User Join Date: Nov 2018 Location: Belfast Posts: 1,512	So not content with the issue being IDE related I opened my Amiga this evening to perhaps play around with the plug of the LED and wires whilst the Amiga case was open. I rebooted and what not without a screen attached to just try and get some HD activity. I thought perhaps messing with the wires might shake a loose connection or something. Anyways after a few tries I noticed when holding the LED board that the HD light came on once and that was it. I was then unable to replicate this for sometime. Then after another few attempts I think I was pushing a little pressure on the HD LED and then light lit and replicated HD activity as the CF adapter LED did. Then it stopped when I let the pressure off. This prompted me to just reheat the solder on that particular LED and now it seems to work as intended. I thought it was perhaps something so simple but I couldn't be sure as I had no other LED board to try with it. I may swap this one out now for a nice RED ORANGE and GREEN one. I shall see. Last edited by rabidgerry; 30 May 2020 at 21:07. Reason: grammatical

01 July 2021, 18:52	#167
Alien8 Registered User Join Date: May 2020 Location: Portugal Posts: 17	Can anyone advise me on the connections to make on the adapter in the image? Attached Thumbnails

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26 May 2020, 14:13	#161
rabidgerry Registered User Join Date: Nov 2018 Location: Belfast Posts: 1,512	So weirdly my Floppy drive is working again. Good! However the HD LED is gone again. Given that it worked briefly would this seem more like an issue with the LED connection to the mother board, the LED Board itself or the CF adapter? As stated before the CF Adapter LED activity light works no problem. I just want to see if I need to buy a new LED or there is some other issue.

27 May 2020, 03:09	#162
lesta_smsc Registered User Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 3,173	If it's intermittent then you may have issue with IDE connection. This could be the wire or the IDE connector on motherboard. Unfortunately without testing either using an alternative motherboard and/or new IDE cable it will be trial and error.

14 May 2021, 22:42	#165
toples50 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2018 Location: Greece Posts: 143	Any suggestion for an ide to cf adapter that works normally?

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