Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 14:10:02 GMT From: Charles Owens <cowens@greatbaysoftware.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/139653: READ_BIG sluggish ata CD/DVD performance on HP DL360 G5 Message-ID: <200911061410.nA6EA26Q098684@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/139653; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Charles Owens <cowens@greatbaysoftware.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/139653: READ_BIG sluggish ata CD/DVD performance on HP DL360 G5 Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:06:21 -0500 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------050509090204080805000400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-WatchGuard-AntiVirus: part scanned. clean action=allow John Baldwin wrote: > One thing to note is that the boot loader just uses BIOS calls to load the > kernel off of the CD, so if that is taking a long time that implies that the > delay is in the BIOS or perhaps in the hardware at that stage. Given that, > it may be that the CD drive in this machine is slow due to some > controller/hardware issue. That doesn't explain the READ_BIG errors (though > perhaps they could be related, but there isn't anything that indicates to > prove or disprove that that I can see). > That makes sense. The biggest issue for us, though, is the post-boot sluggishness (since that slows down the entire OS install). Thanks, Charles --------------050509090204080805000400 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=utf-8; name="cowens.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="cowens.vcf" X-WatchGuard-AntiVirus: scanned 'cowens.vcf'. clean action=allow begin:vcard fn:Charles Owens n:Owens;Charles org:Great Bay Software adr:;;;Dover;NH;;US email;internet:cowens@greatbaysoftware.com tel;work:603.617.4844 tel;fax:603.430.0713 tel;cell:603.866.0860 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:http://www.greatbaysoftware.com version:2.1 end:vcard --------------050509090204080805000400--
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