ATA activity LED

[Andre Guibert de Bruet]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, rihad wrote:

> Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, rihad wrote:
> >
> >>Why is the disk activity LED always on in 5-C? Various Linuxes and XP
> >>don't exhibit this behaviour.
> >
> >Care to share what type of ATA controller(s) your system has?
>
> $ dmesg | grep -e ^ata -e ^ad -e ^acd
> atapci0: <Intel ICH2 UDMA100 controller> port 0xfc00-0xfc0f at device
> 31.1 on pci0
> ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
> ata0: [MPSAFE]
> ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
> ata1: [MPSAFE]
> ad0: 29325MB <Maxtor 6E030L0> [59582/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100
> acd0: DVDROM <LITEON DVD-ROM LTD-165H> at ata0-slave PIO4

What does the output of 'vmstat -i |grep ata' look like?

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