Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 31 Aug 2004 14:59:02 -0500 | From | Matt Domsch <> | Subject | Re: HDD LED doesn't light. |
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On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 12:44:08PM -0700, Adrian Yee wrote: > But this doesn't explain why I have two motherboards here where the HDD > activity LED does not light up in linux (for SATA drives) but does in > windows . Note that it only starts working in windows *after* the > driver has loaded.
I've heard of implementations of the drive light on SATA where it is controlled through a general-purpose I/O pin somewhere else in the chipset. If that's the case, then the Windows driver may well know how to drive the GPIO to indicate drive activity for you...
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