On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Frans Pop <elendil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wednesday 27 August 2008, saeed bishara wrote: >> Frans, does the LED stay "on" even when there is no disk activity? > > Yes, it does. > > On Wednesday 27 August 2008, saeed bishara wrote: >> > I'm being told that there's a standard LED control bit on Orion, but >> > hopefully Saeed can comment. If it's a QNAP specific problem, I can >> > talk to my contacts at QNAP. >> >> bit 0 of 0x8002c controls the active LED, 1 makes it blink slower >> (more user friendly). >> I checked 2.6.26 on rd5182 and both LEDs work fine. it's probably QNAP >> specific problem. >> Frans, can you please try the patch at >> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ide/msg25093.html > > That patch does not seem to make any difference. > >> if it still doesn't work please check the value of the register at >> 0xf1010004 (MPPs control). > > $ sudo ./bin/devmem2 0xf1010004 > /dev/mem opened. > Memory mapped at address 0x4001f000. > Value at address 0xF1010004 (0x4001f004): 0x55550000 thanks for the check, the register seems all right. can you try setting bit 0 of the 0xf108002c then run some io? which disk you have there? is there any chance that you can replace it with different model that support NCQ? saeed -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html