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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 17:32:51 -0500
From: Craig Garner <xrayu@home.com>
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To: Agent Drek <drek@MonsterByMistake.Com>
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Subject: Re: drive light always on
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I wouldn't assume things are "wired" correctly.  I would start by
going over your hardware setup.  Check termination, etc...

Craig

Agent Drek wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 
> cheers,
> 
>         =derek
> 
> Monster By Mistake Inc > 'digital plumber'
> http://www.interlog.com/~drek
> 
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