> tell us your hardware configuration in details. eg. what
> kind of motherboard is it? how many internal and
> external devices do you have .. etc... etc..
Here what I've got (which I also posted a few days back):
I have the following set up. I should preface
this with a few things: first, the wiring on
the board is correct because the light works
properly in Windoze. Second, all peripherals
are PCI unless noted; third, I am using all
of my five PCI slots, one of two ISA slots, and
neither of my two USB ports. Okay, here's what I
got:
Mobo: Epox MVP3G5 (2 MB L2 cache)
CPU: 500 MHz K6-2
Memory: 384 MB
HD: 30 GB Maxtor (6 GB for MDK 7.2)
Floppy: One 1.44 MB standard
DVD: Toshiba SD-M1202
Burner: Creative RW8433E
Mouse: PS/2 M$ IntelliMouse
KBoard: standard (generic)
Video: Diamond Viper 770 AGP (32 MB)
DVD/MPG: Hollywood Plus
Capture: Fusion Bt878 capture card for camera
Sound: Aureal SQ2500 (may they R.I.P.)
Network: Allied Telesyn AT-2500TX 10/100 Ethernet
Modem: 56k ISA (56xifxvC) (may they also R.I.P.)
Miark
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sevatio Octavio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Miark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 1:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Hard drive light always lit
> It now sounds like it's the Linux drivers for the
motherboard and/or IDE
> controllers that's causing the problem. U should repost
this with a
> listing of the type of motherboard and related components
that you're
> dealing with. Perhaps reconfiguring your kernel will
help. If no
> solution is found, at least it's not taxing your HD and
CPU.
> >
> > Seve
> >
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> >
> > On 1/10/01, 11:27:09 AM, "Miark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> regarding Re:
> > [newbie] Hard drive light always lit:
> >
> >
> > > > When the light is on, can you hear a great deal
> > > > of harddrive activity?
> >
> > > Nope. The light is on whether the hard drive is at work
> or
> > > not.
> >
> > > > Also, is your CPU bogged down enough to slow
> > > > every thing else?
> >
> > > I keep a CPU meter running while in X, but most of the
> time
> > > it's registering nothing.
> >
> > > That's good to know about the swap partition, though.
> Which
> > > reminds
> > > me, I installed 7.2 fresh a couple weeks ago, during
> which
> > > the swap partition was re-formatted. And this HD light
> thing
> > > happened even on the _first_ boot.
> >
> > > It may have, in fact, happened even during installation,
> but
> > > I don't really remember.
> >
> > > Thanks for the suggestions. Any more? :-)
> >
> > > Miark
