Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 17:19:01 -0500 From: "Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com> To: 'Agent Drek' <drek@MonsterByMistake.Com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: drive light always on Message-ID: <576A688A7DA7D011899B00805FEA1AFF9ADA11@sych02.isdip.upmc.edu>
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Just taking a stab at this one, but it had happened to me with Three hard drives. One always stayed lit. Turned out that the jumper setting were wrong. It was a secondary slave, but had the jumper set to secondary master and the master was set to cable select. I switched the jumpers to all the correct positions and it stopped. Funny thing is this happened on a dual boot system and yes the light did go on and off in windows too!? > -----Original Message----- > From: Agent Drek [SMTP:drek@MonsterByMistake.Com] > Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 6:21 PM > To: FreeBSD Questions > Subject: Re: drive light always on > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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