Hard disk light stays on. No processes, no apps running. reboot=corruption. wtf?

GrapefruiTgirl · 05-08-2007, 06:02 AM

Hi Tje

according to the above output, no tests were ever run on that drive either.
Notice the 'warning' that the SAMSUNG option might need to be specified when issuing (some) SMART commands to that drive.. Check the manual page 'man smartctl' and read the -F section. Forexample, if your drive matches the criteria as being one of the Samsung devices with known firmware bugs, you may want to specify 'smartctl -F samsung --all /dev/hda' or 'smartctl -F samsung -t long /dev/hda' to get the proper output from the drive.

Tje · 05-10-2007, 03:14 AM

I would appreciate to look at my reply.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...=551527&page=2

Well, this thread is about "hard disk light stay on..."

Is this acpi issues?Then I found this, go to section 13
http://www.columbia.edu/~ariel/acpi/acpi_howto.html --> maybe you can take a look of this, acpi bugs that lead the hard disk light on by itself.

Cheers,

Tje