From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750765AbVI1UO0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:14:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750767AbVI1UO0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:14:26 -0400 Received: from hulk.vianw.pt ([195.22.31.43]:63118 "EHLO hulk.vianw.pt") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750765AbVI1UOZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:14:25 -0400 Message-ID: <433AF98E.4020504@esoterica.pt> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 21:14:06 +0100 From: Paulo da Silva User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Strange behaviour with SATA disks. Light always ON References: <43374DDB.6090708@esoterica.pt> <20050928064612.GL2811@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20050928064612.GL2811@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jens Axboe wrote: >On Mon, Sep 26 2005, 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? >> >> > >It's a bug in the ahci driver in the kernel, if you upgrade to a newer >kernel it is fixed there. The changeset of interest is: > >http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=c0b34ad2956036cdba87792d6c46d8f491539df1;hp=9309049544935f804b745aa4dea043fb39b2bf2a > > > I patched it by hand (just deleting 2 lines). I works fine now!!! I searched for a solution using "access light " keywords, but should have used "LED" instead :-( Thank you.