From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 8 04:55:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA21961 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 04:55:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ninbox.ml.org (hsv1-54.airnet.net [207.242.81.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA21955 for ; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 04:55:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@airnet.net) Received: from airnet.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ninbox.ml.org (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA04470; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 06:54:29 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <366D2184.AEEDF32B@airnet.net> Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 06:54:28 -0600 From: Kris Kirby Organization: Absolutely None! X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hard Disk Led stays lit References: <199812080353.VAA31188@n4hhe.ampr.org> <19981208144705.P12688@freebie.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Yowza! CC list chopped.] Greg Lehey wrote: > In the Good Old Days drives often had several options for the meaning > of the LED, such as ``am selected'', ``have power on'', ``am > transferring data'', ``am writing data''. It looks as if yours is > saying ``have power on''. Possibly there are DIP switch options to > change the meaning. My CD-ROM seems to think "power on" until FreeBSD (or anything else) probes it. Have considered moving the LED to the drive itself, but I like to see when all hell breaks loose on my IDE bus. I currently have a situation where something in the ATAPI driver bugs my CD-ROM to the point of not behaving. I get "atapi (something) controller not ready" messages. Sorry, I don't keep it running long after that. -- Kris Kirby UAH Mail UAH CS Home WWW ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message