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Date:      04 Dec 2000 17:03:00 +0100
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        Chris Shenton <cshenton@OutBounderInc.com>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4.2R on Thinkpad 560x: disk spin-up/down, *slow* (3.x was fine)
Message-ID:  <xzp66l0uqbv.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Chris Shenton's message of "03 Dec 2000 12:20:44 -0500"
References:  <lf1yvpqv4j.fsf@Samizdat.uucom.com>

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Chris Shenton <cshenton@OutBounderInc.com> writes:
> I just put 4.2R on a Thinkpad 560x where I've been running 3.x for
> years without problem.  It's incredibly slow and appears to have
> problems with the disk (internal IDE).  When it's accessing it, it
> sounds like is spins up, does an access, then spins down. During
> compilation or similar this causes it to make a lot of noise and be
> very slow.

I had similar problems on a 600E (and worse; the machine would
sometimes arbitrarily decide to suspend, even though the AC adapter
was on-line; then it would resume and let me press a few keys before
suspending again, then resume etc). It all went away when I flashed my
BIOS to the latest version available on IBM's support website.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org


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