From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MCP55 disk activity LEDs don't flash
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2008 14:28:11 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <493AE05B.2010707@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <493A8767.5030200@seiner.com>
Yan Seiner wrote:
> I have a 6 slot server case with a backplane. AFAICT the backplane is
> passive and there are SATA cables that lead from the backplane to the mobo.
>
> The problem is that the disk activity LEDs for the slots don't flash at
> all. The mobo is an ASUS M2N SLI Deluxe, which has the MCP55 controller.
>
> The drive activity LED which plugs into the mobo works just fine; the
> individual LEDs for each of the drives don't flash - they just stay on.
> Is there something I can enable to make them work? Or is the backplane
> broken?
The backplane may be expecting the host to control the LEDs. You'd have
to check with the manufacturer to be sure. As for how it would do this,
there's such a thing as enclosure management support in SATA, but the
sata_nv driver doesn't support it. If there is a way to use it on that
controller, only NVidia would know, since they've provided no
documentation for their pre-AHCI controllers. Some AHCI controllers do
have support for this..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-06 20:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-06 14:08 MCP55 disk activity LEDs don't flash Yan Seiner
2008-12-06 17:05 ` Dan Noé
2008-12-07 14:57 ` Andrew Lyon
2008-12-07 15:57 ` Harri Olin
2008-12-06 20:28 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2008-12-07 1:00 ` Yan Seiner
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