Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 08:46:46 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Drive light on all the time on 8-STABLE. Message-ID: <20100129194646.GA3178@osiris.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <20100118041148.GA3764@osiris.chen.org.nz> References: <1263723781.00208012.1263711003@10.7.7.3> <4B52E634.8010609@FreeBSD.org> <20100117182008.GA3224@osiris.chen.org.nz> <20100118041148.GA3764@osiris.chen.org.nz>
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On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 05:11:48PM +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote:
[...]
> I've rebooted the box a few times, and have observed that the drive
> LED flickers normally up until:
>
> > atapci0: <ATI IXP600 SATA300 controller> port 0xff00-0xff07,0xfe00-0xfe03,0xfd00-0xfd07,0xfc00-0xfc03,0xfb00-0xfb0f mem 0xfe02f000-0xfe02f3ff irq 22 at device 18.0 on pci0
> > atapci0: [ITHREAD]
> > atapci0: AHCI v1.10 controller with 4 3Gbps ports, PM supported
> > ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
> > ata2: port is not ready (timeout 0ms) tfd = 000001d0
> > ata2: software reset clear timeout
> > ata2: [ITHREAD]
>
> At which point after the software reset, the drive LED stays solidly
> on from then onwards.
Just for the archives: I've switched over to using AHCI, and this
problem has now disappeared.
Cheers.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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