Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Jul 2005 00:10:32 -0400 | From | Yaroslav Halchenko <> | Subject | 2.6.8 -> 2.6.11 (+ata-dev patch) -- HDD is always on |
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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?
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