From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 19 14:11:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.monsterbymistake.com (monsterbymistake.com [205.207.163.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43686157ED for ; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 14:11:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drek@MonsterByMistake.Com) Received: from jazz.monsterbymistake.com (jazz.monsterbymistake.com[205.207.163.189]) by mail.monsterbymistake.com (Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #3; 1998-Sep-25) (3081 bytes) via sendmail with /P:esmtp/R:bind_hosts/T:inet_zone_bind_smtp id (sender ident using rfc1413) for ; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 17:02:08 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 18:20:53 -0500 (EST) From: Agent Drek To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: drive light always on In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 |To: FreeBSD Questions |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: rev 0x00 int a irq 11 on pci0.12. |0 |ahc0: aic7896/97 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs |ahc1: rev 0x00 int a irq 11 on pci0.12. |1 |ahc1: aic7896/97 Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs | | | |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: 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: 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