Re: Strange behaviour with SATA disks. Light always ON

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Robert Hancock wrote:

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..

Is there any intention to correct this?
Should I file a bug?
I think this should be trivial for those
who know the driver ...

BTW, the kernel configuration has a specific "option" for
Silicon Image SATA, but if I choose it without "ahci"
the system does not boot! Why?

Thanks

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