From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 17 18:06:23 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A6E01065672 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:06:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from chen.org.nz (ip-58-28-152-174.static-xdsl.xnet.co.nz [58.28.152.174]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12A518FC0C for ; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:06:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by chen.org.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3D1C5E040A; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:06:20 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:06:20 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Ian Smith Message-ID: <20100117180620.GB10081@osiris.chen.org.nz> References: <20100117064733.GA3119@osiris.chen.org.nz> <20100117194712.C41296@sola.nimnet.asn.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100117194712.C41296@sola.nimnet.asn.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Drive light on all the time on 8-STABLE. X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:06:23 -0000 On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 08:03:02PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: > Jonathan, > > On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, Jonathan Chen wrote: > > On the weekend, I moved my 8-STABLE installation (csup'd late Dec 2009) > > onto a new drive, a Seagate ST31000528AS CC3; and while the transfer was > > successful, I've noticed that the drive light is solidly on all the time, > > even if it boots into single-user. > > I guess this is the red/amber case LED, rather than on the drive itself? Yes. > > # uname -a > > FreeBSD osiris.chen.org.nz 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #1: Sat Jan 16 08:32:54 NZDT 2010 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/OSIRIS amd64 > > > > Is this something I should be worried about? There doesn't appear to > > be any disk I/O (I can't hear the disk grinding), but I may be wrong. > > gstat should be definitive about activity. Even constant low level > activity should usually show some flickering. gstat doesn't show much activity on the drive at all. Most of the time the drive and it's associated slices read green on 0.0. > > The drive from which I transferred from did not exhibit this strange > > behaviour. > > > > Any advice would be welcome. > > If it were IDE I'd suspect its cable - and the drive if it wasn't that > - but I guess the SATA controller would be driving the LED. Yup. I've booted it into Windows, and the behaviour is what I'd expect - ie LED is off when no disk activity is happening. Thanks anyway. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.