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Date:      Fri, 19 Nov 1999 15:40:01 -0500 (EST)
From:      Agent Drek <drek@MonsterByMistake.Com>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   drive light always on
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.9911191522320.23109-100000@jazz.monsterbymistake.com>

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Hello all,

I just installed FreeBSD3.3 (October release) on our flashy new mail server.
For some reason however, the drive light (wired from the motherboard) never
turns off. I'm wondering if this should be a cause of worry :) It's on even
when the entire system really is doing nothing and it's off when the system
boots (until it starts mounting the drives)

There are 4 drives. 1floppy, 1 ATAPI CDrom and 2 seagate scsi hard drives.
SCSI is on the motherboard:
L440GX+ Intel board with Pentium III 450.

ahc0: <Adaptec aic7896/97 Ultra2 SCSI adapter> rev 0x00 int a irq 11 on pci0.12.
0
ahc0: aic7896/97 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs
ahc1: <Adaptec aic7896/97 Ultra2 SCSI adapter> rev 0x00 int a irq 11 on pci0.12.
1
ahc1: aic7896/97 Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs

<snip>

npx0 on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
Waiting 3 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
changing root device to da0s1a
da0 at ahc1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: <SEAGATE ST34520W 1498> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
da0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled
da0: 4340MB (8888924 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 553C)
da1 at ahc1 bus 0 target 1 lun 0
da1: <SEAGATE ST34520W 1498> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
da1: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled
da1: 4340MB (8888924 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 553C)


I have the same CDROM drive at home running FreeBSD and the drive light turns
on/off with system activity. But here I'm stumped.

The manufacturer said that there was no problems in their shop ("yeah the light
went blinky blink when I installed NT") so I'm going under the assumption that
it is wired correctly.

This happens with the default Boot Kernel and with my custom kernel.

I've searched the mail archive and have not found anything yet. I appreciate
any help you can give me. Need more info?

cheers,

	=derek

Monster By Mistake Inc > 'digital plumber'
http://www.interlog.com/~drek



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