From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 17 18:25:38 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E0C61065676 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:25:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from qmta10.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta10.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.17]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDDFD8FC14 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:25:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta22.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.73]) by qmta10.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id WiJ01d00Q1ap0As5AiRdro; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:25:37 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([98.248.46.159]) by omta22.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id WiRk1d00A3S48mS3iiRlXU; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:25:45 +0000 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5F73C1E3033; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:25:35 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:25:35 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100117182535.GA21009@icarus.home.lan> References: <20100117064733.GA3119@osiris.chen.org.nz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100117064733.GA3119@osiris.chen.org.nz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Subject: Re: Drive light on all the time on 8-STABLE. X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:25:38 -0000 On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 07:47:33PM +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote: > Hi, > > On the weekend, I moved my 8-STABLE installation (csup'd late Dec 2009) > onto a new drive, a Seagate ST31000528AS CC3; and while the transfer was > successful, I've noticed that the drive light is solidly on all the time, > even if it boots into single-user. > > # uname -a > FreeBSD osiris.chen.org.nz 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #1: Sat Jan 16 08:32:54 NZDT 2010 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/OSIRIS amd64 > > Is this something I should be worried about? There doesn't appear to > be any disk I/O (I can't hear the disk grinding), but I may be wrong. > The drive from which I transferred from did not exhibit this strange > behaviour. Is it possible for you to swap the drive out with another brand (e.g. Western Digital), or possibly a different model of Seagate? The reason I ask: I've seen what you describe, though it was many years ago -- but the similarity is that the disk was Seagate. I replaced the drive with one from WD and the behaviour disappeared. Footnote: I'm not slamming/insulting Seagate here, I'm just saying that in the past I've seen something similar. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |