All right, this looks like a pretty broad agreement on this issue. Jeff, would you please apply this patch?
Regards, Martin
Patch: fix wrong HD activity control by ahci driver Signed-off-by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The ahci driver 1.0 sets the SActive bit on every transaction, causing the LED to light up. The SActive bit is used only for native command queuing (NCQ) which the current driver version doesn't implement. Resetting the SActive bit is the device's responsibility (by sending a "Set Device Bits FIS" to the host adapter) but this is not required in response to non-NCQ commands, and (most) devices don't. Thus the LED stays always on. This patch fixes the LED behavior. Spec references: http://www.intel.com/technology/serialata/pdf/rev1_1.pdf, sec. 3.3.13, 5.5.1 http://www.serialata.org/docs/serialata10a.pdf http://www.intel.com/design/storage/papers/25266401.pdf --- linux-2.6.13-rc5/drivers/scsi/ahci.c.orig 2005-08-04 08:14:44.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.13-rc5/drivers/scsi/ahci.c 2005-08-04 08:19:06.000000000 +0200 @@ -696,9 +696,6 @@ static int ahci_qc_issue(struct ata_queu struct ata_port *ap = qc->ap; void *port_mmio = (void *) ap->ioaddr.cmd_addr; - writel(1, port_mmio + PORT_SCR_ACT); - readl(port_mmio + PORT_SCR_ACT); /* flush */ - writel(1, port_mmio + PORT_CMD_ISSUE); readl(port_mmio + PORT_CMD_ISSUE); /* flush */