Hard drive activity light

[Zack069]

I've noticed that the hard drive light on my computer stays on constantly whenever I'm in the FreeBSD, PC-BSD or Ghost-BSD environment. Should I be concerned with this even though I hear no activity from the hard drive?

 

[wblock@]

Probably not. Does top(1) show it swapping? Is it really slow? What system is it, with what hard drive controller?

 

[Zack069]

It sounds the same when I'm in windoze WIndows not doing much, but the difference is that the light is on and never flickers. BTW, the system is something I built up myself. So it's hard to say about the ID of the hard drive controller. Is there a command that tells me that? I think it's dsmeg or something like that.