From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 8 05:54:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA27352 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 05:54:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail2.panix.com (mail2.panix.com [166.84.0.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA27343 for ; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 05:54:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tomg@nrnet.org) Received: from mailhost.nrnet.org (root@mailhost.nrnet.org [166.84.192.39]) by mail2.panix.com (8.8.8/8.8.8/PanixM1.3) with ESMTP id IAA23270; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 08:53:59 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (tomg@localhost) by mailhost.nrnet.org (8.8.7/8.8.4) with SMTP id IAA07039; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 08:47:16 -0500 Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 08:47:16 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas Good Reply-To: Thomas Good To: Greg Lehey cc: "FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Hard Disk Led stays lit In-Reply-To: <19981208151654.S12688@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > In the Good Old Days drives often had several options for the meaning > of the LED, such as ``am selected'', ``have power on'', ``am > transferring data'', ``am writing data''. It looks as if yours is > saying ``have power on''. Possibly there are DIP switch options to > change the meaning. > > Greg Greg, I have similar symptoms on my hdd - my drive is a wd caviar 540 that only fires its led when it spins up to read or write, at least under Win3.1 and Slackware...when I am not accessing the device the lamp is not lit. Under FreeBSD the led comes on during boot diagnostics and stays on. Surviving even a system halt. If I reboot to DOS the led returns to its `premorbid' state. ;-) Similarly, my Sony CDU77E/1.0e behaves erratically when I reboot via shutdown -r into DOS. This same behaviour occurred on Slackware. So, my Linux/FreeBSD workaround for the CD is to halt the system and do a hard reset. Then Sony is happy again. I am rather used to this little dance... Cheers, Tom ----------- Sisters of Charity Medical Center ---------- Department of Psychiatry ---- Thomas Good, System Administrator North Richmond CMHC/Residential Services Phone: 718-354-5528 75 Vanderbilt Ave, Quarters 8 Fax: 718-354-5056 Staten Island, NY 10304 www.panix.com/~ugd ---- Powered by PostgreSQL 6.3.2 / Perl 5.004 / DBI-0.91::DBD-PG-0.69 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message