HDD LED Always on in my A4000 - normal?

[FastRobPlus]

I notice that when I have my CF/IDE adapter as the master and my Creative CD-ROM drive as slave (or cable select) on the IDE port of the Amiga, the HDD LED always remains lit, even with no activity. If I remove the CD-ROM, the HDD activity light works normally.

Is this a fairly common complaint? Has anyone here seen and found a nice workaround?

I installed IDEFix from somewhere a while back but it did not change the behavior.

 

[Sardine]

prob unrelated but i have had the same issue with a samsung 80gb HDD on my A1200 led lit all the time and gets brighter during hdd activity, changed to a 30gb hdd or 32gb sdcard and the hdd led only lights during hdd activity, so have you tried a diff ide device as could be compatibility issues like some WD drives on older PC's not detecting correctly unless on their own cable not sharing.

 

[FastRobPlus]

Interestingly, when I use the 3.9 utility "playCD", the hdd light goes off. Subsequent access of the CF makes the light flash properly.

 

[fitzsteve]

These sort of issues are quite common with some CDROM and HDD combinations.

Might be resolved by using a 4way IDE splitter, I assume they are device 1 & 2 on the same cable?