From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 6 21:55:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA20231 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 21:55:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dsinw.com (dsinw.com [207.149.40.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA20226 for ; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 21:55:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hamellr@dsinw.com) Received: (from hamellr@localhost) by dsinw.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) id VAA15557; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 21:54:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 21:54:36 -0800 (PST) From: rick hamell To: Nicholas Theriault cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hard Disk Led stays lit In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981207003959.0091f4e0@mail.iq.ca> 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 > When freebsd probes for the cdrom (wcd0) which is a SONY CDU-55E, he > finds it but > the hard disk led stays on until I reboot the machine. If I disable the > secondary IDE controller on my > mainboard (the cdrom is hooked on the 2nd controller) then fbsd does not > find the cdrom drive and the led acts normally. > Any ideas how I can fix that ? It is weird! Check the LED plug itself first, make sure pin 1 goes to pin one on the controller or motherboard. NEVER under any circumstances plug it into the hard drive! I'd also check my master/slave jumpers on both the hard drive and the cdrom. Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message