Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:28:04 +0200 From: Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Drive light on all the time on 8-STABLE. Message-ID: <4B52E634.8010609@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <1263723781.00208012.1263711003@10.7.7.3> References: <1263723781.00208012.1263711003@10.7.7.3>
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Jonathan Chen wrote: > 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. > > Any advice would be welcome. What disk controller and driver do you use? -- Alexander Motin
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