21 Apr
2003
21 Apr
'03
7:11 a.m.
On Sat, 19 Apr 2003, Tony Duell wrote:
Panasonic 5.25" drives use a socket for the front panel LED, so it is
extremely easy to change the color. I've swapped out many amber LEDs in
their 1.2Mb drives for green ones. According to the company when I
requested technical docs for that particular series of drives, the LED
color was something a customer could specify when ordering drives.
-Toth
A rule of
thumb I use, but I won't swear is universal... Is the LED
color. USUALLY... Red LED signifies 360k/180k Drives, and a Green LED
signifies 1.2mb Drives.
Again, not reliable. The 1.2M drive on this machine (orginal IBM) has a
red LED. I think that for Teac drives, the LED colour was actually a
customer-selectable option (red, yellow and green all exist, for all
types of drives)