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Date:      Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:28:04 +0200
From:      Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Drive light on all the time on 8-STABLE.
Message-ID:  <4B52E634.8010609@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <1263723781.00208012.1263711003@10.7.7.3>
References:  <1263723781.00208012.1263711003@10.7.7.3>

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Jonathan Chen wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Any advice would be welcome.

What disk controller and driver do you use?

-- 
Alexander Motin



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