From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 8 13:55:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA16501 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 13:55:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA16489 for ; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 13:55:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id IAA03076; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 08:25:36 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id IAA30502; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 08:25:36 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981209082536.K12688@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 08:25:36 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Thomas Good Cc: "FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Hard Disk Led stays lit References: <19981208151654.S12688@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Thomas Good on Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 08:47:16AM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 8 December 1998 at 8:47:16 -0500, Thomas Good wrote: > On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, 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. > > I have similar symptoms on my hdd - my drive is a wd caviar 540 that > only fires its led when it spins up to read or write, at least under > Win3.1 and Slackware...when I am not accessing the device the lamp is > not lit. That's ``normal'' nowadays. > Under FreeBSD the led comes on during boot diagnostics and stays on. > Surviving even a system halt. If I reboot to DOS the led returns to > its `premorbid' state. ;-) Interesting. I wonder what makes it do that. > Similarly, my Sony CDU77E/1.0e behaves erratically when I reboot via > shutdown -r into DOS. This same behaviour occurred on Slackware. > So, my Linux/FreeBSD workaround for the CD is to halt the system > and do a hard reset. Then Sony is happy again. I am rather used > to this little dance... Now that's one I haven't heard of. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message