Re: Strange behaviour with SATA disks. Light always ON

[Robert Hancock]

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?

I don't know if this is considered "normal" but I know that the Silicon 
Image chips do have a strange way of handling the access light - it has 
to be specifically turned on and off by a GPIO pin in the driver, the 
chip doesn't seem to handle it itself..

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