Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965163AbVI1Gpx (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Sep 2005 02:45:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751168AbVI1Gpx (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Sep 2005 02:45:53 -0400 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:44625 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751058AbVI1Gpx (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Sep 2005 02:45:53 -0400 Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 08:46:17 +0200 From: Jens Axboe To: Paulo da Silva Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Strange behaviour with SATA disks. Light always ON Message-ID: <20050928064612.GL2811@suse.de> References: <43374DDB.6090708@esoterica.pt> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43374DDB.6090708@esoterica.pt> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1000 Lines: 28 On Mon, Sep 26 2005, Paulo da Silva wrote: > Hi! > I don't know if this is the right place to ask > about this, or even if this is a problem at all. > > Anyway I didn't find relevant information on > this ... > > I have just bought a new PC with two SATA drives. > I had no problems to have them working, > apparently fine except for one thing: > After reading the kernel, the driver access light (led?) > is always on! > Is this normal? Why? It's a bug in the ahci driver in the kernel, if you upgrade to a newer kernel it is fixed there. The changeset of interest is: http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=c0b34ad2956036cdba87792d6c46d8f491539df1;hp=9309049544935f804b745aa4dea043fb39b2bf2a -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/