Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 15:31:46 -0600 From: "Michael J. Turner" <mike@inethouston.net> To: "Hal Weaver" <hweaver@pinetel.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Slow, noisey hard drive activity Message-ID: <00d401c0b897$a88f25e0$0204a8c0@dfgh> References: <3AC3A738.B73B0404@pinetel.com>
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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? > > Thanks in advance. > > Hal > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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