Re: 2.6.8 -> 2.6.11 (+ata-dev patch) -- HDD is always on

[Jeff Garzik]

Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> I've been running debian stable with 2.6.8 kernel but due to recent
> failure of the SATA harddrive I've decided to upgrade to 2.6.11 + libata
> patch (2.6.11-libata-dev1.patch.gz) and recent smartmontools
>
> After everything worked out and I decided to rest in piece but I've
> found that HDD LED light nomater what. It seems to turn off during BIOS
> checks and then kicks in 1-2 secs after kernel starts booting. No
> prominent harddrive activity noise can be heard but this drive is
> quite silent so it is hard to say.

Does this happen in unpatched 2.6.12.3 or 2.6.13-rc4?


> QUESTION: 
>
> LED constantly ON - does it signal about a problem or may be just
> that some status bit is hanging? Should I worry and try differen kernel
> version?
>
> YIKES: ran hddtemp /dev/sda and whole box hanged... SysRq keys - no
> effect... heh heh... reboot -> nothing in logs

> P.S. was ata-dev patch incorporated in recent kernel versions so I could
> use SMART with vanilla kernel?

This is one of the reasons why SMART support is not yet in the mainline 
kernel!

	Jeff


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