Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 08:47:16 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas Good <tomg@nrnet.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: "FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Hard Disk Led stays lit Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981208084051.7012A-100000@mailhost.nrnet.org> In-Reply-To: <19981208151654.S12688@freebie.lemis.com>
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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
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