ATA activity LED

[rihad]

Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:

>On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, rihad wrote:
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>>Why is the disk activity LED always on in 5-C? Various Linuxes and XP
>>don't exhibit this behaviour.
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>Care to share what type of ATA controller(s) your system has?
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Sure.

$ 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
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