Did you build this machine yourself? Maybe you've got the LED's crossed on
the Mobo?
-----Original Message-----
From: Po Kwok [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 7:25 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Hard drive light always lit
Miark wrote:
>
> I don't think memory is the problem--I have 384 MB!
>
> Any other insights?
>
> Miark
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Irwan Hadi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > 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.
tell us your hardware configuration in details. eg. what kind of
motherboard is it? how many internal and external devices do you have
.. etc... etc..
aston
sydney, australia
