Subject: FYI on MobilePro 800/880 "disk access"
To: None <port-hpcmips@netbsd.org>
From: Tim Underwood <TimU@hightouchinc.com>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 08/20/2004 15:42:47
I asked a week or so ago about the constant hard disk access on my
MobilePro. (My configuration is a PCMCIA 2GB HD, and a wireless CF
card).

Well, after some experimentation, I found that the "disk access" was
actually network traffic.  Another one of those dope slaps to the head.
The CF uses an ATA interface, so the MobilePro "sees" it as a "hard
drive".  Thus, the light blinks when there's network traffic on the ATA
bus.  There is no actual PCMCIA hard drive access going on.  (Duh!)