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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 21:14:06 +0100
From: Paulo da Silva <psdasilva@esoterica.pt>
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Subject: Re: Strange behaviour with SATA disks. Light always ON
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Jens Axboe wrote:

>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
>
>  
>
I patched it by hand (just deleting 2 lines).
I works fine now!!!
I searched for a solution using "access light "
keywords, but should have used "LED" instead :-(

Thank you.

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