Re: Strange behaviour with SATA disks. Light always ON

[Paulo da Silva <psdasilva@esoterica.pt>]

Jens Axboe wrote:

> 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
>
>  
I patched it by hand (just deleting 2 lines).
I works fine now!!!
I searched for a solution using "access light "
keywords, but should have used "LED" instead :-(

Thank you.

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