Drive light on all the time on 8-STABLE.

Peter Jeremy peterjeremy at acm.org
Mon Jan 18 06:35:27 UTC 2010


On 2010-Jan-18 17:11:48 +1300, Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz> wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 07:20:08AM +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 12:28:04PM +0200, Alexander Motin wrote:
>> > Jonathan Chen wrote:
>> > > On the weekend, I moved my 8-STABLE installation (csup'd late Dec 2009)
>> > > onto a new drive, a Seagate ST31000528AS CC3; and while the transfer was
>> > > successful, I've noticed that the drive light is solidly on all the time,
>> > > even if it boots into single-user.
...
>I've rebooted the box a few times, and have observed that the drive
>LED flickers normally up until:
>
>> atapci0: <ATI IXP600 SATA300 controller> port 0xff00-0xff07,0xfe00-0xfe03,0xfd00-0xfd07,0xfc00-0xfc03,0xfb00-0xfb0f mem 0xfe02f000-0xfe02f3ff irq 22 at device 18.0 on pci0

I have exactly the same behaviour on my Gigabyte GA-MA770-DS3 with
3 Samsung HD103UJ HDDs and a Pioneer DVR-215 DVD-RW.  I'm running
8.0-STABLE/amd64 from the end of November.

It looks like it might be a bug in the IXP600 SATA driver.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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