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From: "Richard S. Straka" <straka@inficad.com>
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Dave Cole wrote:
> 
> I have noticed that my pII running 3.0-971225-SNAP doesn't light up
> its ASUS SC875 ultra wide SCSI host interface's led during activity.
> It lights up fine during boot and while running Win95 but it is
> totally dim while FreeBSD is running.
> 
> I thought it might just be me but I recently heard of a friend who is
> running 2.2.5-Stable that also noticed his LED not doing anything.
> 
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Try adding

options         SCSI_NCR_SYMBIOS_COMPAT

to your kernel configuration file.  Building a kernel with this option
made the activity light work on my Symbios 875 card.

regards,

Richard Straka