From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 7 20:09:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA05510 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 20:09:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from n4hhe.ampr.org (tnt3-254.HiWAAY.net [208.147.146.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA05494 for ; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 20:09:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@n4hhe.ampr.org) Received: from n4hhe.ampr.org (localhost.ampr.org [127.0.0.1]) by n4hhe.ampr.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA31188; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 21:53:20 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@n4hhe.ampr.org) Message-Id: <199812080353.VAA31188@n4hhe.ampr.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Mark Ovens cc: rick hamell , Nicholas Theriault , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Hard Disk Led stays lit In-reply-to: Message from Mark Ovens of "Mon, 07 Dec 1998 07:54:46 GMT." <366B89C6.A2B1ADCC@uk.radan.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 21:53:20 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Ovens writes: > rick hamell wrote: > > > > > 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. My system has been that way so long that I forget what "normal" behaviour is. I don't know if the LED on the front of my Sony CDU77E/1.0e is supposed to be on or off. Its currently green with no CD inside. But I do remember Once Upon A Time I had an LED attached to the MB HD LED contacts. And sometime in the FreeBSD 2.2.x line that LED stayed on all the time. Everything else works. So I don't worry about it. [...] > What's the reason for this? I've got mine plugged into the (SCSI) HD > because, apparently, the LED pins on my Diamond Fireport card don't > work under FreeBSD. There has been some discussion of this. Think its because the Symbios chip requires the driver to turn on/off the LED. And nobody bothered. Maybe one day I'll boot NT and see if I have my LED wired right? NT has to be good for *something*, doesn't it? :-) -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message