Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 18:20:53 -0500 (EST) From: Agent Drek <drek@MonsterByMistake.Com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: drive light always on Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9911191809450.23109-100000@jazz.monsterbymistake.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9911191522320.23109-100000@jazz.monsterbymistake.com>
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The only idea anyone had was to reinstall the OS. I would really like to avoid this if possible. Does anyone know how installing from a CD could result in this behaviour? I feel too close to MS water when I hear reinstall :) thanks, =derek Monster By Mistake Inc > 'digital plumber' http://www.interlog.com/~drek On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Agent Drek wrote: |Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 15:40:01 -0500 (EST) |From: Agent Drek <drek@MonsterByMistake.Com> |To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> |Subject: drive light always on | |Hello all, | |I just installed FreeBSD3.3 (October release) on our flashy new mail server. |For some reason however, the drive light (wired from the motherboard) never |turns off. I'm wondering if this should be a cause of worry :) It's on even |when the entire system really is doing nothing and it's off when the system |boots (until it starts mounting the drives) | |There are 4 drives. 1floppy, 1 ATAPI CDrom and 2 seagate scsi hard drives. |SCSI is on the motherboard: |L440GX+ Intel board with Pentium III 450. | |ahc0: <Adaptec aic7896/97 Ultra2 SCSI adapter> rev 0x00 int a irq 11 on pci0.12. |0 |ahc0: aic7896/97 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs |ahc1: <Adaptec aic7896/97 Ultra2 SCSI adapter> rev 0x00 int a irq 11 on pci0.12. |1 |ahc1: aic7896/97 Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs | |<snip> | |npx0 on motherboard |npx0: INT 16 interface |Waiting 3 seconds for SCSI devices to settle |changing root device to da0s1a |da0 at ahc1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 |da0: <SEAGATE ST34520W 1498> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device |da0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled |da0: 4340MB (8888924 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 553C) |da1 at ahc1 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 |da1: <SEAGATE ST34520W 1498> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device |da1: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled |da1: 4340MB (8888924 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 553C) | | |I have the same CDROM drive at home running FreeBSD and the drive light turns |on/off with system activity. But here I'm stumped. | |The manufacturer said that there was no problems in their shop ("yeah the light |went blinky blink when I installed NT") so I'm going under the assumption that |it is wired correctly. | |This happens with the default Boot Kernel and with my custom kernel. | |I've searched the mail archive and have not found anything yet. I appreciate |any help you can give me. Need more info? | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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