On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 07:54:06AM +1000, Daniel Carosone wrote:
> The light stays on until I do something like cdrecord -checkdrive
> (or, probably, anything else that would tickle the drive over the
> bus).  At that time I get (from memory) an ata command timeout in
> syslog, the checkdrive completes normally, and the light goes out.

On my systems, if you open/close the CD-ROM "door" using the eject
button, the IDE light goes off.  I have this problem on most of my
NetBSD machines.

  -jm