Yes I do. Maybe the ata is buggy. I haven't got any problems with FreeBSD
or OpenBSD ... I will try the trick.

I have HDD Master on IDE0
I have HP-CRW and Samsung CD in IDE1

stefan


On Tue, 22 May 2001, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 21:08:34 +0200
> From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
> To: Stefan Parvu <sparvu@cc.hut.fi>
> Cc: port-i386@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: wd0 question
> 
> On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 10:18:14PM +0300, Stefan Parvu wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have installed in one of my machine NetBSD 1.5 i386. Everything seems
> > fine except I am trying to figure out why the led of my HDD is always on
> > after booting NetBSD ? The partition is mounted as it comes by default
> > install ...
> > 
> > The machine is a Pentium III 550MHz, Asus P3B-F
> > 128 MB RAM
> > IBM 20 GB EIDE 
> 
> Do you have a ATAPI device on the controller ? It seems these devices sometimes
> do something strange on the bus which keep the LED on. On my system opening
> and closing the CD tray clears it ...
> 
> --
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
> --
>