[ale] Red Hat 6.1 Hard Drive always accessing

[Jeff Hubbs]

I know this sounds like a DUUUUHHHH! sort of thing, but are you certain that
the LED's connector is actually completely on the mobo's LED pins?  This may
not be obvious under casual inspection - oftentimes, the HDD LED header is
right up against other headers end-to-end on the mobo and you may not
necessarily be able to see the header straight-on.  If the connector is
bridging one pin on the HDD LED header and another pin on another header, it
can result in this kind of symptom.

- Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Douglas Knudsen [mailto:dtk at math.ufl.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 6:51 PM
> To: Stephen F Nicholas
> Cc: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] Red Hat 6.1 Hard Drive always accessing
> 
> 
> I have checked the jumpers a dozen times and even set them 
> incorrectly to see
> if the light went off correctly.(it is the only drive in the machine
> presently) Nada!  Many moons ago I had the same problem under 
> WindowsNT, but not
> under Win95 or 98, which is quite unexpected also.  After 
> many hours of
> digging, I settled for the light staying on....could spend 
> all my 'free' time
> on this!
> 
> On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Stephen F Nicholas wrote:
> > Sorry,
> > Let me add additional info.  I have dealt with single hard 
> drive where the
> > jumpers were misconfigured, and received the 'solid' HDD light.
> > 
> > Steve
> > 
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> > On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Stephen F Nicholas wrote:
> > 
> > > Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 00:27:25 -0400 (EDT)
> > > From: Stephen F Nicholas <syssfn at panther.Gsu.EDU>
> > > To: Wandered Inn <esoteric at denali.atlnet.com>
> > > Cc: ale at ale.org
> > > Subject: Re: [ale] Red Hat 6.1 Hard Drive always accessing
> > > 
> > > Hi Ale,
> > > FWIW,
> > > I have seen this before, when multiple drives are used, 
> and the master and
> > > slave jumpers are not set correctly.  May or not be..just 
> thought I'd pass
> > > this along.
> > > 
> > > Steve
> 
> > > > > > Douglas Knudsen wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Are you sure it is running?  I have a similar 
> problem with one of my
> > > > > > > harddrives.  The red access LED light stays on constantly.
> > > > > > I can't figure it
> > > > > > > out.  I pull the drive and put a different one in and the
> > > > > > problem goes away, so
> > > > > > > I am convinced it is the HD not the IDE device, 
> but thats it.
> 
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