Subject: Re: Hard drive light constantly on
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Nick Ricketts <nightshade5543@earthlink.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/03/2003 08:53:20
Yeah it works to reset to do an eject command. But why?? that is really
anoying. Is there any way to set it up so that it gets initialized right in
the fist place?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Manuel Bouyer" <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
To: "Micha? Pasternak" <michal@pasternak.w.lub.pl>
Cc: "Nick" <nightshade5543@earthlink.net>; <port-i386@netbsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 12:23 PM
Subject: Re: Hard drive light constantly on


> 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.
>
> -- 
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
>      NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
> --
>