On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Mike Burger wrote:
> I do have one other minor concern.
>
> This only seems to happen on the system on which I'm running XFS.
>
> The hard drive light will not turn off...it's like something is constantly
> running the hard drive(s) on my system.
>
> It looked like it had stopped, at one point, when I had a 3 drive combo
> going. I replaced two drives with a single large drive (1 swap partition, 2
> XFS partitions for /var and /home), and the hard drive light just stays
> on, steady.
>
> Now, before anyone says it's got to be a matter of the wire being incorrectly
> installed, the thing flashes just fine during the normal boot process. It
> doesn't stay on steady until the thing is fully booted.
>
> Is there something in the XFS code that does some sort of major league
> consistency checking over a period of time? This system is barely in use,
> yet...only 3 users, of which I'm the only one doing anything, yet.
I've seen this behaviour once, the light works as it should during boot
but when something touches the cdrom it stays on constantly. No
performance loss or anything, the same thing happand on that system in
win98 and Linux so it's not a Linux issue.
/Martin
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