From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 4 8: 3:10 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 4 08:03:08 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15A0237B400 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 08:03:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA15984; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 17:03:03 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Sender: des@ofug.org X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Chris Shenton Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.2R on Thinkpad 560x: disk spin-up/down, *slow* (3.x was fine) References: From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 04 Dec 2000 17:03:00 +0100 In-Reply-To: Chris Shenton's message of "03 Dec 2000 12:20:44 -0500" Message-ID: Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris Shenton 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 -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message