SATA and HDD LED on K7N2 Delta-ILSR

I bought the motherboard about a month ago and ive never gotten the HDD LED to work with my SATA hard drive.  I have an old WD 5400RPM 40GB in the IDE-1 socket, a LG 24X10X40 CD-RW in IDE-2 and a new WD 120GB drive on the SATA-1 port.  The LED works with my other 40GB hard drive, but not with the 120GB SATA hard drive.  Any answer on why?

Hi,
This is a known issue on some SATA boards, the drive LED seems to work for some - and not for others. BTW, this is not an MSI only issue. AFAIK, there is no fix for it - unless of course somebody knows better???
At a guess, SATA is quite new (in the general scheme of things) and I don't think they've quite "Ironed out" all the "Teething problems" often seen in new hardware.
In my opinion it's not a bad idea to wait for the "Revisions" to make an appearance before committing to newer hardware. But that's just me!
Does anybody else know any more on this issue???
There is a freeware program you can download from here that may help - it displays drive "LED's" on your desktop.
O&O Drive LED
Sorry I couldn't be more helpful!
Axel  

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