Manuel Bouyer [Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 09:23:13PM +0200]:
> On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 11:23:51AM +0200, Micha? Pasternak wrote:
> > Nick [Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 05:14:15AM -0700]:
> > > I installed netbsd-1-6-1 with GENERIC kernel and noticed that the harddrive light is always lit up. I have installed from the same cd on 5 other different computers and they dont have this problem. Just this one. Anyone else have this problem??
> > 
> > Holy cow :) same here :) 
> > 
> > I have Soltek's VIA based motherboard with Duron.
> > 
> > No side-effects though... maybe except higher power consumption ;)
> 
> I suspect if you do an access to the atapi device (like eject cd/eject -l cd)
> it will go off.

Loading CD-burner helped (no effect after -l on an old CD ROM drive). 

Why is that so?

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