-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, 2010-05-18 at 17:00 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: ...
If the light is still on no matter what, then I would re-cable all the drives. The only thing I can think of is a cable problem at this point. If it's software related -- it, like a great deal more, is well over my head ;P
I have an old computer on which the HD from the motherboard is always on. I think it did not happen until I added a second disk, but I'm unsure. I have changed the HDs several times on that machine (bigger sizes), and some of those had a LED on the HD itself, and this one was off most of the time. So in my case it is somehow related to the board. However, if my memory is correct, I think the LED wasn't on full time in windows (95), but I'm not going to boot it to check :-) Anyway, I know the disk wasn't busy full time, thus I learned to ignore the light. Nowdays, there is iostat? to verify. Or even gkrellm. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkvzE2sACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UYGACgjtcmbNRd3OQBPYN7IJmhjgvn sPQAnjAV+hd4qZ6VQmBeNhXM5EDb4B7j =bUce -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org