Re: Strange behaviour with SATA disks. Light always ON

[Paulo da Silva <psdasilva@esoterica.pt>]

Robert Hancock wrote:

> 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..
>
Is there any intention to correct this?
Should I file a bug?
I think this should be trivial for those
who know the driver ...

BTW, the kernel configuration has a specific "option" for
Silicon Image SATA, but if I choose it without "ahci"
the system does not boot! Why?

Thanks