On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 10:29:08PM -0500, Peter Seebach wrote:
> So, I have a thinkpad, and I've been using it under NetBSD for the last year
> or so.
> 
> Around the time of Usenix, it developed a quirk, which is that the IDE drive
> activity light stays pegged.  All the time.
> 
> It does not do this under Windows.  It used to sometimes stop if I rebooted.
> Now it just stays that way all the time.
> 
> Any suggestions or explanations?

This may have something to do with ATAPI devices. I've seen this on occasions
but it didn't seem to have bad effects. It suddendly stopped doing it.

The problem is that I never managed to find to which IDE signal the activity
ligh is wired.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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