Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 21:53:20 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> Cc: rick hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com>, Nicholas Theriault <theriault.nicholas@iq.ca>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hard Disk Led stays lit Message-ID: <199812080353.VAA31188@n4hhe.ampr.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> of "Mon, 07 Dec 1998 07:54:46 GMT." <366B89C6.A2B1ADCC@uk.radan.com>
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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
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