From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932363AbVIZDvF (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Sep 2005 23:51:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932366AbVIZDvE (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Sep 2005 23:51:04 -0400 Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10]:19636 "EHLO pd5mo2so.prod.shaw.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932363AbVIZDvD (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Sep 2005 23:51:03 -0400 Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 21:49:37 -0600 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: Strange behaviour with SATA disks. Light always ON In-reply-to: <4QP2K-4ML-7@gated-at.bofh.it> To: linux-kernel Message-id: <43376FD1.2020306@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <4QP2K-4ML-7@gated-at.bofh.it> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Paulo da Silva wrote: > Hi! > I don't know if this is the right place to ask > about this, or even if this is a problem at all. > > Anyway I didn't find relevant information on > this ... > > I have just bought a new PC with two SATA drives. > I had no problems to have them working, > apparently fine except for one thing: > After reading the kernel, the driver access light (led?) > is always on! > Is this normal? Why? I don't know if this is considered "normal" but I know that the Silicon Image chips do have a strange way of handling the access light - it has to be specifically turned on and off by a GPIO pin in the driver, the chip doesn't seem to handle it itself.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/