From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 17 10:28:07 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 810071065672 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:28:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mavbsd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f227.google.com (mail-fx0-f227.google.com [209.85.220.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12CE78FC13 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:28:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm27 with SMTP id 27so1407803fxm.3 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:28:06 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=dPFWA50Jdkq4GoBaDC1/mDKM4ASalByB+A4Unh1FHxk=; b=UOLyuWx9C9rp76sb6weqjrJNZ/t6bpHvSeHG3+w9rsm4qTJyS/Xw0LisLo19Vx70mU D7ZCb7agHH5EAdepUmIUFroipswRz08V5Cu6jrw/GUhKW+HSmRjIniocbDBYqc+jzUnU frin7slXi/Ar8rY/5Vij3vXpT45LTUcmQ5030= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=O9RQX9RQmz31/+vApVJz9IDWkcPPwpK8+KZ0KVcXW6+GNo9wv3M8X2D1G82Z+OudDz HZouck5pwJkY3kGZKouxEnGO/VI/veuRQG8l0VCihuzwiaeHUeDaqboMI15oYWssiS6B WFHEPjvcD/cpWIoaF39l8d5K0NA83aW/wcfRw= Received: by 10.223.3.27 with SMTP id 27mr657626fal.8.1263724085896; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:28:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from mavbook.mavhome.dp.ua (pc.mavhome.dp.ua [212.86.226.226]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 14sm1494544fxm.11.2010.01.17.02.28.05 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:28:05 -0800 (PST) Sender: Alexander Motin Message-ID: <4B52E634.8010609@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:28:04 +0200 From: Alexander Motin User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20091212) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Chen References: <1263723781.00208012.1263711003@10.7.7.3> In-Reply-To: <1263723781.00208012.1263711003@10.7.7.3> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 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 10:28:07 -0000 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