In message <20000823115135.A6802@antioche.lip6.fr>, Manuel Bouyer writes:
>On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 04:54:20PM -0500, Peter Seebach wrote:
>> In message <20000822215022.A326@antioche.eu.org>, Manuel Bouyer writes:
>> >This may have something to do with ATAPI devices. I've seen this on occasio
>ns
>> >but it didn't seem to have bad effects. It suddendly stopped doing it.
>> 
>> That's about what I've experienced.  Hmm.
>> 
>> >The problem is that I never managed to find to which IDE signal the activit
>y
>> >ligh is wired.
>> 
>> I'm willing to try complicated experiments, if that'll help.  It's a real
>> pain not being able to eyeball disk load.
>
>What happens if you touch the ATAPI device ?

Nothing.

I have seen this go away once under load, but not repeatably.

I can simultaneously tar my CD and part of my drive to /dev/null without
changing this.

-s