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John, |
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None of my Linux boxes with SATA drives (3 machines) show drive |
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activity via the LED. It seems to be some limitation of the Linux |
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drivers. |
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The SATA bus is a different hardware interface from the EIDE |
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interface. My suspicion has been that the LED is hard wired into the |
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EIDE controller and probably has to be driven by extra commands |
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(somehow...) when using the SATA interface. Keep in mind that the EIDE |
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controller is in your chipset and the Silicon Image SATA controller is |
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a completely separate chip so what it's doing may or may not be |
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visible to the hardware that drives the LED. |
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Anyway, a bit long winded but you are not alone. ;-) |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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On 8/19/05, John J. Foster <Gentoo-User@××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Good morning, |
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> Something that's been bothering me, although not that much, for about 3 |
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> years now. I've never investigated, and perhaps the answer is simple, |
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> but every distro I've used (RH9, FC1, FC2, Suse 9.1, and now Gentoo), |
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> has not shown the tiny blinking drive activity indicator on the front of |
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> my tower. This machine has always, until a few weeks ago when I finally |
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> dumped it for good, dual-booted with XP. And XP always showed activity |
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> via the light when there was activity. I would have thought that this |
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> was actually a hardware signal, and not OS related. But it doesn't |
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> appear that way. This is with a WD 36GB SATA drive on a ASUS A7N8X |
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> deluxe mobo w/ onboard Silicon Image controller. |
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> Any, and all, help is greatly appreciated. |
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> Thanks, |
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> John |
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> Contrary to the lie machine, the world is not safer. |
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