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Date:      Mon, 29 Nov 1999 13:18:57 -0500 (EST)
From:      Agent Drek <drek@MonsterByMistake.Com>
To:        Doug Barton <DougB@simplenet.com>
Cc:        "Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: drive light always on
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.9911291312030.18401-100000@jazz.monsterbymistake.com>
In-Reply-To: <384050FE.73A98097@simplenet.com>

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On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, Doug Barton wrote:

|Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 13:45:34 -0800
|From: Doug Barton <DougB@simplenet.com>
|To: "Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com>
|Cc: 'Agent Drek' <drek@MonsterByMistake.Com>,
     FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
|Subject: Re: drive light always on
|
|"Person, Roderick" wrote:
|> 
|> Just taking a stab at this one, but it had happened to me with Three hard
|> drives. One always stayed lit. Turned out that the jumper setting were
|> wrong. 
|
|	I had the same problem with a similar cause. I would definitely suspect a
|hardware problem, and can't see how the OS would be causing it at all.
|Definitely there is no reason to do a reinstall.
|
|Doug
|-- 
|"Welcome to the desert of the real." 
|
|    - Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus, "The Matrix"
|

I rewired the leds directly to the drives (SCSI) and they go blinky blink now.
(management likes lots of blinky lights...they love the switches :)
Reinstalling did not make any sense what-so-ever so I didn't.

I only wrote to this list because the manfacturer was upset that I wasn't
using windows NT and insisted that it worked with windows. I can only assume
that they were wrong and that there is a problem in general with those
intel motherboards detecting drive activity when there are both SCSI and
IDE units installed. (Intel L440GX+)

thanks all,

	=derek

Monster By Mistake Inc > 'digital plumber'
http://www.interlog.com/~drek



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