[ale] Red Hat 6.1 Hard Drive always accessing

[Douglas Knudsen]

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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