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glitch13
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 Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 2:40 pm Post subject: Harddrive LED just stays on [SOLVED] |
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Hey, I recently changed the filesystem of my secondary harddrive from reiser to fat32 (so i can access it from booth the os's I dual boot, linux and win2k). It works like a charm and I can read and write to it from both os's; but now there is a strange, mildly annoying problem: since the change, under linux my computer's hdd led just stays on. Under win2k it works as a hd led should ( that is only coming on during hdd activity), but under linux it just stays on (the hdd isn't thrashing the whole time btw).
I have my ide controller compiled in the kernel, and hdparm shows that dma and all that good stuff is on, besides this just started happening when i reformatted.
Things I've changed since reformatting:
-Added msdos and vfat to kernel (was modules before)
-Added 437 codepage and ISO8859-1 charset in kernel to support FAT32 filenames.
-in fstab, changed options to mount drive as nobody:nobody with no retstrictions (umask=0) so that users could read and write to it.
-used to have it mounted to /share/olddrive, now I have it mounted to /share
That's all I can think of. Thanks in advance for any help!
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potatoface
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| Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 3:19 pm Post subject: |
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hi,
the only thing i know i that you should add user to your opts in /etc/fstab.
my section looks like:
| Code: | /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat noauto,rw,user 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat noauto,rw,user 0 0 |
this are my windows partitions where users are able to read and write to the partition.
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glitch13
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| Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 3:39 pm Post subject: |
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I don't think I need to mount it as nobody:nobody, and having "users" in there lets users mount and r/w to it, but the problem is that whoever mounts it, it mounts with permissions for them only, and I have it auto mounting at boot, so it can only be accessed by root, which is why I have the umask with no restrictions.
Do you think this is what's causing the light to stay on?
btw, here's my fstab entry for it:
| Code: | | /dev/hdc1 /share vfat auto,rw,users,uid=65534,gid=65534,umake=0 0 0 |
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glitch13
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| Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 2:05 pm Post subject: |
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Well, after using the computer for about an hour or two last night, the light just started acting normal again. hrm. I have no idea what was going on and I didn't hear any thrashing going on. I'm not even going to wager a guess as to why it stayed on for 24 hours.
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