[gentoo-user] Hard drive activity indicator light

[John J. Foster]

Good morning,

Something that's been bothering me, although not that much, for about 3
years now. I've never investigated, and perhaps the answer is simple,
but every distro I've used (RH9, FC1, FC2, Suse 9.1, and now Gentoo),
has not shown the tiny blinking drive activity indicator on the front of
my tower. This machine has always, until a few weeks ago when I finally
dumped it for good, dual-booted with XP. And XP always showed activity
via the light when there was activity. I would have thought that this
was actually a hardware signal, and not OS related. But it doesn't
appear that way. This is with a WD 36GB SATA drive on a ASUS A7N8X
deluxe mobo w/ onboard Silicon Image controller.

Any, and all, help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
John

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