Re: [newbie] Hard drive light always lit

[Irwan Hadi]

At 11:57 PM 1/5/01 -0700, Miark wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I dual-boot to Windoze and Mandrake 7.2. In Windoze, the
>hard drive light on my case acts as you'd expect, but in
>Linux, it _never_ turns off. Does that mean that my drive is
>always running, or that the hardware mechanism that controls
>the light just loses its mind while running Linux?

Probably you need more memory, because perhaps you have too many services 
run at boot which consume the memory.
to control the services, do ntsysv as a root.