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SubjectRe: Strange behaviour with SATA disks. Light always ON
On Mon, Sep 26 2005, Paulo da Silva wrote:
> Hi!
> I don't know if this is the right place to ask
> about this, or even if this is a problem at all.
>
> Anyway I didn't find relevant information on
> this ...
>
> I have just bought a new PC with two SATA drives.
> I had no problems to have them working,
> apparently fine except for one thing:
> After reading the kernel, the driver access light (led?)
> is always on!
> Is this normal? Why?

It's a bug in the ahci driver in the kernel, if you upgrade to a newer
kernel it is fixed there. The changeset of interest is:

http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=c0b34ad2956036cdba87792d6c46d8f491539df1;hp=9309049544935f804b745aa4dea043fb39b2bf2a

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Jens Axboe

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