From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 17 06:47:38 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CFB8106566B for ; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 06:47:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from chen.org.nz (ip-58-28-152-174.static-xdsl.xnet.co.nz [58.28.152.174]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 366678FC0C for ; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 06:47:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by chen.org.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B8A83E044E; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:47:33 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:47:33 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100117064733.GA3119@osiris.chen.org.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Subject: Drive light on all the time on 8-STABLE. X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 06:47:38 -0000 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. Any advice would be welcome. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught." - Marquis de Vauvenargues