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Subject: Re: Drive light on all the time on 8-STABLE.
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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?

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Alexander Motin