From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Strange behaviour with SATA disks. Light always ON
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 21:49:37 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43376FD1.2020306@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4QP2K-4ML-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
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..
--
Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada
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next parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-26 3:51 UTC|newest]
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2005-09-26 3:49 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2005-09-27 21:54 ` Strange behaviour with SATA disks. Light always ON Paulo da Silva
[not found] <4QSjW-N8-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
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[not found] ` <4RuIM-7uQ-39@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-09-28 0:45 ` Robert Hancock
2005-09-26 1:24 Paulo da Silva
2005-09-28 6:46 ` Jens Axboe
2005-09-28 20:14 ` Paulo da Silva
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