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Re: Hard drive light won't go off?

To: Mike Burger <mburger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Hard drive light won't go off?
From: Juri Haberland <juri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 14:24:58 +0200
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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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.

Unusual.

> 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.

Any logging going to syslog constantly?
Are running a RAID which might sync in the background?

Juri


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