Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 08:25:36 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Thomas Good <tomg@nrnet.org> Cc: "FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Hard Disk Led stays lit Message-ID: <19981209082536.K12688@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981208084051.7012A-100000@mailhost.nrnet.org>; from Thomas Good on Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 08:47:16AM -0500 References: <19981208151654.S12688@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.LNX.3.96.981208084051.7012A-100000@mailhost.nrnet.org>
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On Tuesday, 8 December 1998 at 8:47:16 -0500, Thomas Good wrote: > 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. > > 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. That's ``normal'' nowadays. > 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. ;-) Interesting. I wonder what makes it do that. > 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... Now that's one I haven't heard of. 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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