From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 19 11:30:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.monsterbymistake.com (monsterbymistake.com [205.207.163.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6750115598 for ; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 11:30:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drek@MonsterByMistake.Com) Received: from jazz.monsterbymistake.com (jazz.monsterbymistake.com[205.207.163.189]) by mail.monsterbymistake.com (Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #3; 1998-Sep-25) (2500 bytes) via sendmail with /P:esmtp/R:bind_hosts/T:inet_zone_bind_smtp id (sender ident using rfc1413) for ; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 14:21:16 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 15:40:01 -0500 (EST) From: Agent Drek To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: drive light always on 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 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: rev 0x00 int a irq 11 on pci0.12. 0 ahc0: aic7896/97 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs ahc1: rev 0x00 int a irq 11 on pci0.12. 1 ahc1: aic7896/97 Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs 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: 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: 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message