From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 7 20:17:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA06263 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 20:17:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA06258 for ; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 20:17:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA29999; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 14:47:06 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id OAA15074; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 14:47:06 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981208144705.P12688@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 14:47:05 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: David Kelly , Mark Ovens Cc: rick hamell , Nicholas Theriault , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hard Disk Led stays lit References: <199812080353.VAA31188@n4hhe.ampr.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199812080353.VAA31188@n4hhe.ampr.org>; from David Kelly on Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 09:53:20PM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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