From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 18 04:11:50 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 D52491065670 for ; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:11:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from chen.org.nz (ip-58-28-152-174.static-xdsl.xnet.co.nz [58.28.152.174]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 797A78FC1A for ; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:11:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by chen.org.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4FA71E040A; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:11:48 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:11:48 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100118041148.GA3764@osiris.chen.org.nz> References: <1263723781.00208012.1263711003@10.7.7.3> <4B52E634.8010609@FreeBSD.org> <20100117182008.GA3224@osiris.chen.org.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100117182008.GA3224@osiris.chen.org.nz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i 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: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:11:50 -0000 On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 07:20:08AM +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 12:28:04PM +0200, Alexander Motin wrote: > > 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? > > It's just the out of the box ATA drivers. All the filesystems are UFS. > I'm not sure how to find out what the disk controller is, so I've > included the dmesg output. The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-MA69G-S3H. I've rebooted the box a few times, and have observed that the drive LED flickers normally up until: > atapci0: 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: 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. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- When you don't know what you are doing, do it neatly.