Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:25:35 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Drive light on all the time on 8-STABLE. Message-ID: <20100117182535.GA21009@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <20100117064733.GA3119@osiris.chen.org.nz> References: <20100117064733.GA3119@osiris.chen.org.nz>
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On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 07:47:33PM +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote: > Hi, > > On the weekend, I moved my 8-STABLE installation (csup'd late Dec 2009) > onto a new drive, a Seagate ST31000528AS CC3; and while the transfer was > successful, I've noticed that the drive light is solidly on all the time, > even if it boots into single-user. > > # uname -a > FreeBSD osiris.chen.org.nz 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #1: Sat Jan 16 08:32:54 NZDT 2010 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/OSIRIS amd64 > > Is this something I should be worried about? There doesn't appear to > be any disk I/O (I can't hear the disk grinding), but I may be wrong. > The drive from which I transferred from did not exhibit this strange > behaviour. Is it possible for you to swap the drive out with another brand (e.g. Western Digital), or possibly a different model of Seagate? The reason I ask: I've seen what you describe, though it was many years ago -- but the similarity is that the disk was Seagate. I replaced the drive with one from WD and the behaviour disappeared. Footnote: I'm not slamming/insulting Seagate here, I'm just saying that in the past I've seen something similar. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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