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-Your command is wrong. You ran echo as root, but are wriitng to the sysfs file as you (presumably a non-root user). File redirection is handled by the shell, and so you probably want to do: $ echo 4  | sudo tee /sys/class/gpio/exportThis will run tee, which will both output to stdout and to the passed in file; since it's being run as root, it'll write to the sysfs file as root.Hope this helps :)+It appears that blue disk leds are not blinking in mainline kernels (tried 2.6.26). To fix that, you'll need to change GPIO setting in drivers/ata/sata_mv.c: 
 + 
 +<code> 
 +static void mv6_enable_leds(struct mv_host_priv *hpriv, void __iomem *mmio) 
 +
 +#if 0  
 + writel(0x00000060, mmio + MV_GPIO_PORT_CTL_OFS); 
 +#else  
 + writel(0x00000050, mmio + MV_GPIO_PORT_CTL_OFS); 
 +#endif 
 +
 +</code> 
 + 
 + 
 +Code has been commited in linux-2.6 main git tree as seen here http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a88656553d18c324554855fccc730c9644048111. 
 +So LED will soon be controllable from userland. **Expected in 2.6.31** 
 + 
 +discussion with Erik Benada explaining that : 
 + 
 +<code> 
 +with conversion of Orion architecture to gpiolib it is now possible to 
 +turn off power LED blinking from userspace - eg. after booting is 
 +finished. You can also turn on power LED blinking before you shut down the system to let user know system is going down. 
 + 
 +To turn off power LED blinking after booting is finished: 
 +          echo 1 > /sys/class/gpio/gpio3/value 
 + 
 +To turn on power LED blinking before shutdown/reboot: 
 +        echo 1 >; /sys/class/gpio/gpio4/value 
 +</code> 
 + 
 +Disk access leds still don't work properly in 2.6.32... 
 +Following code configures SATA gpio, not ARM gpio 
 + writel(0x00000050, mmio + MV_GPIO_PORT_CTL_OFS);

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