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Re: Hard drive light won't go off?

To: Juri Haberland <juri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Hard drive light won't go off?
From: Mike Burger <mburger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 16:28:37 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <3BA3489A.D992BEF1@koschikode.com>
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On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Juri Haberland wrote:

> > 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?

No RAID, and nothing really happening on the system to be logged, just
yet.


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