Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 19:26:52 -0800 From: Hal Weaver <hweaver@pinetel.com> To: "Michael J. Turner" <mike@inethouston.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Slow, noisey hard drive activity Message-ID: <3AC3FCFC.78224495@pinetel.com> References: <3AC3A738.B73B0404@pinetel.com> <00d401c0b897$a88f25e0$0204a8c0@dfgh>
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Age could be the problem on the 5G drive, which has the problem. But when I installed either of the two Linux distributions on that same partition, the symptoms I described vanished. Is Linux the Rx for dying drives? ;-) Hal "Michael J. Turner" wrote: > > Hmm.. Well being that you are using small drives they may have > age to them. In other words the heads could be dying, not tottaly > sure though. It sounds pretty screwy though. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Hal Weaver" <hweaver@pinetel.com> > To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 3:20 PM > Subject: Slow, noisey hard drive activity > > > I've installed the following FreeBSD release on two different removable > > hard drives used in the same laptop (IBM Thinkpad 760 ED): > > -------------------------------------------------- > > # uname -a > > FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE #0: Mon Nov 20 13:02:55 GMT > > 2000 jk > > h@bento.FreeBSD.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > > Builds, boots, and other intense hard drive activity takes about twice > > as long on the larger hard drive (5G) than it does on the smaller > > (1.2G). There is also a ticking noise accompanying the hard drive > > activity on the slower drive. > > > > Besides size, what distinguishes the slower drive is that FreeBSD shares > > the drive with Win98 and another OS: > > --------------------------------------------------- > > # fdisk > > ******* Working on device /dev/ad0 ******* > > parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: > > cylinders=662 heads=240 sectors/track=63 (15120 blks/cyl) > > > > parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: > > cylinders=662 heads=240 sectors/track=63 (15120 blks/cyl) > > > > Media sector size is 512 > > Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 > > Information from DOS bootblock is: > > The data for partition 1 is: > > sysid 11,(DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT) > > start 63, size 2494737 (1218 Meg), flag 0 > > beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; > > end: cyl 164/ sector 63/ head 239 > > The data for partition 2 is: > > sysid 76,(unknown) > > start 2494800, size 211680 (103 Meg), flag 0 > > beg: cyl 165/ sector 1/ head 0; > > end: cyl 178/ sector 63/ head 239 > > The data for partition 3 is: > > sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) > > start 2706480, size 7302960 (3565 Meg), flag 80 (active) > > beg: cyl 179/ sector 1/ head 0; > > end: cyl 661/ sector 63/ head 239 > > The data for partition 4 is: > > <UNUSED> > > ------------------------------------------ > > > > After the first installation of FreeBSD on this drive, I removed it and > > then successively tried two Linux distributions, SuSe 6.3 and Slackware > > 7.1. Both of these behaved well within the same partition where FreeBSD > > had been. > > > > However, I prefer FreeBSD and have reinstalled it. Any suggestions > > about how to make FreeBSD to run better while sharing the disk with > > other OSs? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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