On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:50:37PM -0800, Paul Rogers wrote: > With LFS-7.x and linux-3.x, is my front panel IDE LED supposed to be > blinking about once a second? Is that real HD activity? >
I tried to reply last week, but that mail apparently never arrived. There were some similar posts which google found, relating to 2.6.39 and Arch. The 2.6.39 part was an ext4 issue, which was quickly fixed. The other thread(s) eventually established that cron was doing something, and getting logged (in that particular case). For ext4, the default is to write the journal every 5 seconds. I think you should try something like the following: touch now # wait for a little while find / -newer now | xargs ls -l And then look to see what got updated. Yes, it is almost-certainly real activity on whatever the LED is connected to, at least for a desktop machine (laptops tend to be weird and quirky in their own ways, I'm sure that a fw of them have had issues with LEDs on different kernel versions). > > p.s. on the noisy USB debug messages on the console issue. It was there > in 3.10.6[24], quiet in 3.8, so I tried 3.9.11, supposing it was > something introduced somewhere in the 3.10 patch chain, and that's > also quiet. I'm going with that for the time being. I need to get > on with BLFS. Sounds like something either introduced in 3.10 itself (i.e. 3.10.0), or a result of a later fix which was applied to -stable. When your system is working better, you could try testing 3.10.0, and then using git to eith bisect between 3.9 and 3.10 (linus' tree) or between 3.10 and 3.10.62 (stable tree). ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
