From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262304AbVG2EKn (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jul 2005 00:10:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262319AbVG2EKm (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jul 2005 00:10:42 -0400 Received: from washoe.rutgers.edu ([165.230.95.67]:50076 "EHLO washoe.rutgers.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262304AbVG2EKk (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jul 2005 00:10:40 -0400 Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 00:10:32 -0400 From: Yaroslav Halchenko To: linux kernel mailing list Subject: 2.6.8 -> 2.6.11 (+ata-dev patch) -- HDD is always on Message-ID: <20050729041031.GU16285@washoe.onerussian.com> Mail-Followup-To: linux kernel mailing list Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-URL: http://www.onerussian.com X-Image-Url: http://www.onerussian.com/img/yoh.png X-PGP-Key: http://www.onerussian.com/gpg-yoh.asc X-fingerprint: 3BB6 E124 0643 A615 6F00 6854 8D11 4563 75C0 24C8 User-Agent: mutt-ng devel-20050619 (Debian) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I've been running debian stable with 2.6.8 kernel but due to recent failure of the SATA harddrive I've decided to upgrade to 2.6.11 + libata patch (2.6.11-libata-dev1.patch.gz) and recent smartmontools After everything worked out and I decided to rest in piece but I've found that HDD LED light nomater what. It seems to turn off during BIOS checks and then kicks in 1-2 secs after kernel starts booting. No prominent harddrive activity noise can be heard but this drive is quite silent so it is hard to say. SATA drivers were compiled in the kernel to don't mess with initrd. QUESTION: LED constantly ON - does it signal about a problem or may be just that some status bit is hanging? Should I worry and try differen kernel version? YIKES: ran hddtemp /dev/sda and whole box hanged... SysRq keys - no effect... heh heh... reboot -> nothing in logs Detailed information on the system and drives (outputs of smartctl -a) can be found http://www.onerussian.com/Linux/bugs/ata/ Thank you in advance for ideas P.S. was ata-dev patch incorporated in recent kernel versions so I could use SMART with vanilla kernel? -- Yaroslav Halchenko Graduate Student CS Dept. UNM, ABQ Linux User 175555