Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 06:41:38 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au> To: David Kelly <dkelly@mail.hiwaay.net> Cc: marko@uk.radan.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, yurtesen@ispro.net.tr Subject: Re: HDD led stops working after FreeBSD...? Message-ID: <19990331204139.7697.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199903301357.HAA22856@mail.HiWAAY.net> of Tue, 30 Mar 1999 07:57:48 CST References: <199903301357.HAA22856@mail.HiWAAY.net>
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> > Thanks for the explanation. When I asked on the list if the Diamond > > cards were supported someone mentioned that the LED didn't work due to > > a bug in the driver. Obviously not a bug but a sensible design > > decision :-). I don't think I'll bother with the kernel option, I'll > > leave the LED connected to the HD (gonna need another LED though as > > I'm getting a 2nd HD soon, /usr will have 4.5GB all to itself :-) ) > > If you have one of those idiot "MHz" displays on your case, you > can wire HD LED's to a pixel on the display. Even better if the > display has a decimal point. Okay you guys, this is fascinating -- but why do you care about LEDs on your disks? I haven't had a (visible) LED on a disk for at least ten years and have never wished I had. Is there some reason for wanting them? -- Greg Black <gjb@acm.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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