Some IDE hard drive/cdroms have jumpering configurations which differ from
what you expect.
I.E. the factory default may be
|--...
|.....
and the user jumpers one as master
..|...
..|...
and the other as slave
.|...
.|...
however the "leftmost" jumper which was originally installed makes or breaks
the
LED problem you are seeing.
Normally this is the result of using slightly different IDE drive
technologies from two different manufacturers. It is the result of improper
jumpering, (you almost have it correct, it works but the LED stays lit) or a
bad IDE cable.
You also might have left the "cable select" jumper incorrectly set...
Rarely it's a bad IDE controller chip. If the light goes out in Windows, but
stays on in Linux it's normally one of the above.
I've seen this too. Rejumpering or changing the cable has always fixed this
problem.
-JMS
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kelly, Christopher
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 7:52 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [newbie] Hard drive light always lit
Did you build this machine yourself? Maybe you've got the LED's crossed on
the Mobo?
-----Original Message-----
From: Po Kwok [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 7:25 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Hard drive light always lit
Miark wrote:
>
> I don't think memory is the problem--I have 384 MB!
>
> Any other insights?
>
> Miark
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Irwan Hadi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > At 11:57 PM 1/5/01 -0700, Miark wrote:
> > >Hi all,
> > >
> > >I dual-boot to Windoze and Mandrake 7.2. In Windoze, the
> > >hard drive light on my case acts as you'd expect, but in
> > >Linux, it _never_ turns off. Does that mean that my drive
> is
> > >always running, or that the hardware mechanism that
> controls
> > >the light just loses its mind while running Linux?
> >
> > Probably you need more memory, because perhaps you have
> too many services
> > run at boot which consume the memory.
> > to control the services, do ntsysv as a root.
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..
aston
sydney, australia
