Re: ahci, SActive flag, and the HD activity LED

Matthias Schniedermeyer
2005-08-03T19:22:02Z

Martin Wilck wrote:
> Jens Axboe wrote:
>
>>> If I am reading the specs correctly, that'd mean the ahci driver is
>>> wrong in setting the SActive bit.
>>
>>
>> I completely agree, that was my reading of the spec as well and hence my
>> original posts about this in the NCQ thread.
>
> Have you (or has anybody else) also seen the wrong behavior of the
> activity LED?

925X-Chipset
Lspci says: 8086:2652
Intel Corp. 82801FR/FRW (ICH6R/ICH6RW) SATA Controller (rev 03)
HDD:
Western Digital WD2000JD-00H, i believe this HDD is non-NCQ.

Kernels: 2.6.10 - 2.6.12
The Activity-LED has burned like a light-bulb every since i have that
computer. (Excluding the few seconds before booting Linux. :-) )

Bis denn

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