Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 14:47:05 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> Cc: rick hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com>, Nicholas Theriault <theriault.nicholas@iq.ca>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hard Disk Led stays lit Message-ID: <19981208144705.P12688@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199812080353.VAA31188@n4hhe.ampr.org>; from David Kelly on Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 09:53:20PM -0600 References: <marko@uk.radan.com> <199812080353.VAA31188@n4hhe.ampr.org>
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On Monday, 7 December 1998 at 21:53:20 -0600, David Kelly wrote: > Mark Ovens writes: >> rick hamell wrote: >>> >>>> When freebsd probes for the cdrom (wcd0) which is a SONY CDU-55E, >> he >>>> finds it but >>>> the hard disk led stays on until I reboot the machine. > > My system has been that way so long that I forget what "normal" > behaviour is. I don't know if the LED on the front of my Sony > CDU77E/1.0e is supposed to be on or off. Its currently green with no CD > inside. > > But I do remember Once Upon A Time I had an LED attached to the MB HD > LED contacts. And sometime in the FreeBSD 2.2.x line that LED stayed on > all the time. Everything else works. So I don't worry about it. 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 -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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