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hanj
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 Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 4:06 pm Post subject: weird... hdd light stays on |
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Hello
I just bought a new Dell SC420 and installed Gentoo on it. Install was fine, but now I'm noticing that the hdd light remains on after boot?? I see no errors in messages or dmesg. I'll post my dmesg during harddrive initilization below. Dell SC420 use SATA drives, I currently have 1 40G drive in there.. and it seems I can't get any information from it via hdparm (most likely user error, though). Here is some info...
dmesg...
| Code: | ReiserFS: sda3: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: sda3: using ordered data mode
ReiserFS: sda3: journal params: device sda3, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: sda3: checking transaction log (sda3)
ReiserFS: sda3: Using r5 hash to sort names
VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 152k freed
Adding 979956k swap on /dev/sda2. Priority:-1 extents:1
ReiserFS: sda5: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: sda5: using ordered data mode
ReiserFS: sda5: journal params: device sda5, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: sda5: checking transaction log (sda5)
ReiserFS: sda5: Using r5 hash to sort names
ReiserFS: sda6: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: sda6: using ordered data mode
ReiserFS: sda6: journal params: device sda6, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: sda6: checking transaction log (sda6)
ReiserFS: sda6: Using r5 hash to sort names
ReiserFS: sda7: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: sda7: using ordered data mode
ReiserFS: sda7: journal params: device sda7, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: sda7: checking transaction log (sda7)
ReiserFS: sda7: Using r5 hash to sort names
ReiserFS: sda8: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: sda8: using ordered data mode
ReiserFS: sda8: journal params: device sda8, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: sda8: checking transaction log (sda8)
ReiserFS: sda8: Using r5 hash to sort names |
kernel version (using grsec and pax):
| Code: | | Linux comp 2.6.11-hardened-r1 #9 Tue May 10 18:42:25 MDT 2005 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux |
hdparm outputs
| Code: | hdparm -I /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
hdparm -i /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
hdparm -d /dev/sda
/dev/sda: |
controller:
| Code: | 0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FR/FRW (ICH6R/ICH6RW) SATA Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
Subsystem: Intel Corporation 82801FR/FRW (ICH6R/ICH6RW) SATA Controller
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5
I/O ports at fe00
I/O ports at fe10 [size=4]
I/O ports at fe20 [size=8]
I/O ports at fe30 [size=4]
I/O ports at fea0 [size=16]
Memory at dff3fc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 2 |
I'm using the follow low-level drivers..all built into the kernel
| Code: | Adaptec AACRAID support
Intel PIIX/ICH SATA support
AHCI SATA support |
I believe the light isn't 'stuck' since boot/post you see it flickering. It stays lit after kernel is loaded.
Any ideas??
thanks much!
hanji |
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Gentree
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| Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 5:10 pm Post subject: |
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ps ax may show any processes running or try installing gkrellm you can see any disk IO
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hanj
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| Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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Hello
Thanks for the reply.
I already have gkrellm running on that.. and disc usage is extremely minimal.
here is output of ps ax
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# ps ax
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
1 ? S 0:00 init [3]
2 ? SN 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
3 ? S< 0:00 [events/0]
4 ? S< 0:00 [khelper]
9 ? S< 0:00 [kthread]
20 ? S< 0:00 [kblockd/0]
104 ? S 0:00 [pdflush]
105 ? S 0:00 [pdflush]
107 ? S< 0:00 [aio/0]
106 ? S 0:00 [kswapd0]
691 ? S 0:00 [kseriod]
739 ? S< 0:00 [ata/0]
741 ? S 0:00 [scsi_eh_0]
742 ? S 0:00 [scsi_eh_1]
743 ? S 0:00 [scsi_eh_2]
744 ? S 0:00 [scsi_eh_3]
804 ? S< 0:00 [reiserfs/0]
9325 ? S<s 0:00 udevd
19639 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/syslog-ng
19069 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/gkrellmd
20585 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/lib/postfix/master
17913 ? S 0:00 qmgr -l -t fifo -u
7822 ? Ss 0:02 /usr/bin/snort -D -u snort -i eth1 -N -c /etc/snort/snort.conf
15934 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/stunnel /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf
11183 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/sbin/tenshi -c /etc/tenshi/tenshi.conf -P /var/lib/tenshi/tenshi.pid
17006 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/tail -q --follow=name --retry -n 0 /var/log/messages /var/log/mail.log /var/log/auth.log
21410 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron
24501 tty1 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux
6502 tty2 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux
9501 tty3 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux
24722 tty4 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux
13041 tty5 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux
22987 tty6 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux
3670 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/stunnel /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf
22114 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/stunnel /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf
21479 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
12471 ? S 0:00 pickup -l -t fifo -u
21499 pts/0 R+ 0:00 ps ax |
I thought that tenshi might be the culprit.. but I have tenshi running on multple boxes.. none of them showing the same problem. Any tests I can run?
Thanks!
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