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echo: rberrypi
to: BOB PROHASKA
from: DRUCK
date: 2020-09-18 12:56:00
subject: Re: status lights on Pi4

On 18/09/2020 03:22, bob prohaska wrote:
> Just got a Pi4 with 8GB of RAM up and running. It's an impressive
> upgrade from a 3b+....
>
> It looks as if the logic of the green status LED has been inverted:
> On the 3b+ the LED was off when idle, flashing when active. The 4
> seems to idle with the green LED on, it blinks off when active.
>
> Is that the whole story? I poked around a little on the Web and
> didn't find any mention, except for flash codes that signal POST
> failures.

I've got an early 4GB Pi4 using a USB stick and the latest 8GB using an
SSD. I only see the green LED when it access the SD card on booting,
then its off after that.

Have you checked with something like dstat that something isn't
continuously buggering with your SD card?

---druck

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