From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: HDD LED doesn't light.
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 21:40:33 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <00b801c48a55$46a2e3b0$6401a8c0@northbrook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa.e807bv7.klg10f@ifi.uio.no>
I seem to remember hearing somewhere that some or all of the Silicon Image
SATA chips have to control the HDD activity light output by twiddling some
GPIO outputs in the driver, it's not inherently done in the hardware as with
most controllers..
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fernando O. Korndörfer" <fok@quatro.com.br>
Newsgroups: fa.linux.kernel
To: "Ben Skeggs" <d4rk74m4@intas.net.au>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 7:10 AM
Subject: Re: HDD LED doesn't light.
> This seems to be a hardware problem, as I have similar hardware (Asus
> A7N8x-e deluxe) and the HDD Led also stays off.
> BTW, I'm using MS-Windows(R).
>
> Tell me something, you'r using SATA, right?
>
>
> Ben Skeggs wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>No matter how much harddisk activity is occuring on my system, the
>>harddisk LED stays off. At first I thought I'd misconnected the lead, but
>>under Windows the light is functional.
>>
>>This occurs on both my SATA harddisk and my PATA harddisk.
>>
>>SATA controller: Silicon Image sil3112
>>PATA controller: NForce2
>>Motherboard : Abit NF7-S 2.0
>>CPU : AthlonXP 3000+
>>
>>The earliest kernel I've used with this hardware is 2.6.6, and the problem
>>occurs right up to 2.6.8.1.
>>
>>I'm completely clueless as I was under the impression that the hardware
>>controlled the LED.
>>
>>Could I please be CC'd any replies as I'm not subscribed to the list.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Ben Skeggs
>>-
next parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-25 3:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <fa.j6vg864.plk4g8@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.e807bv7.klg10f@ifi.uio.no>
2004-08-25 3:40 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2004-08-27 16:10 ` Eric Mudama
2004-08-31 19:44 ` Adrian Yee
2004-08-31 19:59 ` Matt Domsch
2004-09-06 0:50 ` Eric Mudama
2004-08-24 5:26 Ben Skeggs
2004-08-24 13:05 ` "Fernando O. Korndörfer"
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