From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 31 13:34:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post-20.mail.demon.net (post-20.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47EE714F4A for ; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 13:34:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post-20.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.10 #2) id 10SSd1-0007BF-0K; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 21:34:28 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from marder-1. (rasnt-1 [193.114.228.211]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id WAA02402; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 22:33:30 +0100 Received: (from marko@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.2/8.8.8) id WAA00475; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 22:22:35 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from marko) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 22:22:35 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Greg Black Cc: David Kelly , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, yurtesen@ispro.net.tr Subject: Re: HDD led stops working after FreeBSD...? Message-ID: <19990331222235.B259@marder-1.localhost> References: <199903301357.HAA22856@mail.HiWAAY.net> <19990331204139.7697.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <19990331204139.7697.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au>; from Greg Black on Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 06:41:38AM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 06:41:38AM +1000, Greg Black wrote: > > 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? > I don't really know. Your question made me think though, and the only reason I can come up with is, to quote Mallory, "because it's there". Every PC (with a HD) I've used has had a LED for the disk and if you build your own the case always has one with a cable hanging around and I just plug it in. The only real use I had for them was when I had 2 HDs, Windows on one and OS/2 on the other. Each OS had it's swap file on the other HD (the idea being to speed up swapping as the heads never had to move from the swap area) and the LEDs were useful for seeing how much swapping was going on. Interestingly we got one of the new SGI NT workstations at work today and that *doesn't* have a HD LED, I know coz I looked for it when we were trying to decide if IE4 had hung, it had :-) whilst loading a massive graphics demo program. > -- > Greg Black > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message