Re: HDD LED doesn't light.

Matt Domsch
2004-08-31T22:01:10Z

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 12:44:08PM -0700, Adrian Yee wrote:
> But this doesn't explain why I have two motherboards here where the HDD
> activity LED does not light up in linux (for SATA drives) but does in
> windows . Note that it only starts working in windows *after* the
> driver has loaded.

I've heard of implementations of the drive light on SATA where it is
controlled through a general-purpose I/O pin somewhere else in the
chipset. If that's the case, then the Windows driver may well know
how to drive the GPIO to indicate drive activity for you...

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