Hi, i had to setup my fc2 box because of a hd crashed. after installing my new, all went well - except the busy light of the harddisk now burns permanently. As response from the supplier i got: this might happen, new hd's use 3.3V instead of 5V, so if you motherboard not recognizing it, it is no problem - but the new hd is 5V either - they should know, as i sent them models, serialnumbers and all of it - another example for a helpdesk not really caring about the problems of their customers and just replying without a good investigation before. I know, here i am in good hands. so, i expect that even if the busy lamp burns permanently, the ide-disk doesn't turn fulltime. it's just the lamp. so perhaps some pins at the disk are a kind of weird. i look now for a tool, that measures rpms of the ide-disk, without doing benchmarks. so i could see, if no i/o-operation is going on the speed should be 0, and if some i/o-operation going on the speed of the disk. i was searching for days now in internet and found for win many toosl using s.m.a.r.t - this tells start/stop but almost in % and doesnt really help me. why this damn light is disturbing me? i use a laptop - if this hd doesn't stop spinning, i don't have so much battery-lifetime, thats all. so, does somebody know a tool, where i can measure the rpm's? it should really be some kind of daemon or whatever, that just measures the actual speed of the harddisk. thanks a lot. Roger
