On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 08:03:02PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: > Jonathan, > > On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, Jonathan Chen wrote: > > On the weekend, I moved my 8-STABLE installation (csup'd late Dec 2009) > > onto a new drive, a Seagate ST31000528AS CC3; and while the transfer was > > successful, I've noticed that the drive light is solidly on all the time, > > even if it boots into single-user. > > I guess this is the red/amber case LED, rather than on the drive itself?
Yes. > > # uname -a > > FreeBSD osiris.chen.org.nz 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #1: Sat Jan 16 > 08:32:54 NZDT 2010 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/OSIRIS amd64 > > > > Is this something I should be worried about? There doesn't appear to > > be any disk I/O (I can't hear the disk grinding), but I may be wrong. > > gstat should be definitive about activity. Even constant low level > activity should usually show some flickering. gstat doesn't show much activity on the drive at all. Most of the time the drive and it's associated slices read green on 0.0. > > The drive from which I transferred from did not exhibit this strange > > behaviour. > > > > Any advice would be welcome. > > If it were IDE I'd suspect its cable - and the drive if it wasn't that > - but I guess the SATA controller would be driving the LED. Yup. I've booted it into Windows, and the behaviour is what I'd expect - ie LED is off when no disk activity is happening. Thanks anyway. -- Jonathan Chen <[email protected]> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
