From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 27 15:52:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA17759 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 15:52:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from garman.dyn.ml.org (pm510-06.dialip.mich.net [131.118.249.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA17754 for ; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 15:52:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garman@earthling.net) From: garman@earthling.net Message-Id: <199812272352.PAA17754@hub.freebsd.org> Received: (qmail 1113 invoked from smtpd); 27 Dec 1998 23:52:10 -0000 Received: from localhost.garman.net (HELO earthling.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.garman.net with SMTP; 27 Dec 1998 23:52:10 -0000 Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 18:52:09 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: garman@earthling.net Subject: Re: HD LED doesn't go off To: alexlh@funk.org cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <36855840.E1286D95@funk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 26 Dec, Alex Le Heux wrote: > Hi, > > On my recently-installed -current box the hd led doesn't ever seem to go > off. > > I know it doesn't do this under win98 or when it was still (briefly) > 3.0-RELEASE. > > Anyone has a clue what might cause this? > This might not be whats causing it for you, but I have the same problem, and one day while i was real bored, I decided to find out why. It turns out that my real old 2x IDE cdrom drive (it's a sony) causes this. When this drive is removed, the hd light operates as normal. Otherwise, it just stays on. Strange. It doesn't cause any problems, just FYI. enjoy -- Jason Garman http://fs.sso.sytexinc.com/~jgarman/ Student, University of Maryland garman@earthling.net Words of Wisdom from the Simpsons: Whois: JAG145 "'The President did it' is not an excuse" -- Bart Simpson's punishment To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message