> Duncan Stirling enscribed thusly:
>
> > Ever since I started working with 2.1.117, found something odd happening
> > on my computer. The my HDD light remains on, though there often is no
> > active process using the hard disk, nor trying to access the hard disk
> > controller.
>
> You failed to mention what time of hard disk. Was it SCSI, IDE,
> MFM, ESDI, or what. Reason I mentioned the two older hard drive standards
> is that I have seen that effect on MFM and ESDI drives. The "drive select"
> for those drives was independent of drive activity so, if you looked at the
> light on the hard drive, once accessed, the drive light would stay on.
> That is NOT the HDD light that is wired to the controller, however. The
> controller light was driven by drive activity and not drive select. Seems
> like I have seen a similar effect with certain IDE drives where an LED
> connected to the LED jack on the drive would remain lit while and LED
> connected to the HDD LED jack on the motherboard or controller would
> blink with activity.
>
It could also be because of CD-ROM. Do you have a cdrom drive ? Does it
work ? ...
Vladimir Dergachev
> I guess that brings up the next question... Is this an LED on the
> drive itself or an LED connected to the motherboard or controller?
>
> If it's an activity LED, it could indicate a lost interrupt (I've
> also seen that) but that often means that the system then hangs for the period
> of a timeout. Does the LED eventually go out or is it permanently on?
> Does your system continue to run and access the harddrive, or is it dead?
>
> > I haven't heard of anyone else mentioning this occurring in any other
> > system. So I feel so terribly alone, can anyone shed any light to where
> > I might start looking after the obvious has been exploited.
>
>
> Mike
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