From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Paulo da Silva <psdasilva@esoterica.pt>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Strange behaviour with SATA disks. Light always ON
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 08:46:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050928064612.GL2811@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43374DDB.6090708@esoterica.pt>
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
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-28 6:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-26 1:24 Strange behaviour with SATA disks. Light always ON Paulo da Silva
2005-09-28 6:46 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2005-09-28 20:14 ` Paulo da Silva
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2005-09-26 3:49 ` Robert Hancock
2005-09-27 21:54 ` Paulo da Silva
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2005-09-28 0:45 ` Robert Hancock
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