Any Mac I can put this IDE LED light into?

I pulled this three-prong IDE LED light from an external drive enclosure. I thought it would be cool to stick it inside of some old Mac and maybe let it poke out from behind a fan or some opening.

I know I could easily stick this in a Windows PC that has those prongs right on the board, but is there an old Mac I can put this inside of? I don't want to do any rewiring, although it DOES seem as though Macs don't have these prongs right on the motherboard.

Here is the device:


Any suggestions? Thanks.

Hrududu said:

I can't recall any Mac that had any kind of HDD activity light. Many of your old Mac users would enable an extension or control panel that used a little drive icon or pixel in the upper left of the screen to indicate drive activity

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Whoops---I forgot to mention that it's a normal, blue, LED light. It's not a blinking activity light---rather, it illuminates to show that the external enclosure has been switched on.

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poiihy said:

What exactly is that? Where does it plug into? Does it plug into an IDE port? Is it a hard drive indicator light?

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Oh so it looks like that plugs into a special connector on the mobo for lights. I don't know of any mac that has those ports.

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I forget to mention that it's NOT an activity light, it is just a normal LED. That's what I was thinking---I hadn't seen any common prongs in my Macs and was wondering if they were just in some odd place (or if it HAS to be on the motherboard).

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bse5150 said:

Most hard drives have a couple of pins for attaching an activity LED.

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The only other pins I see on an IDE hard drive are reserved for the Master, Slave, etc. selectors (unless those also work for LEDs).

poiihy said:

Quantum Prodrive LPS has an LED that plugs directly into the hard drive.
Quantum Fireball has an led in the middle of the logic board.

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I think most hard drives actually don't... only the old ones like the Quantums. The Quantum Prodrive LPS has an LED plug on the front, for a yellow LED.

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Well in that case just connect the LED to the power source.

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In what way? I'm not looking to do any re-wiring; if so, I'd rather get better lights.