Date: 05 Dec 2000 11:26:28 -0500 From: Chris Shenton <cshenton@OutBounderInc.com> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: Chris Shenton <cshenton@OutBounderInc.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.2R on Thinkpad 560x: disk spin-up/down, *slow* (3.x was fine) Message-ID: <lfwvde96mj.fsf@Samizdat.uucom.com> In-Reply-To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav's message of "04 Dec 2000 17:03:00 %2B0100" References: <lf1yvpqv4j.fsf@Samizdat.uucom.com> <xzp66l0uqbv.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On 04 Dec 2000 17:03:00 +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> said: Dag-Erling> I had similar problems on a 600E (and worse; the machine Dag-Erling> would sometimes arbitrarily decide to suspend, even though Dag-Erling> the AC adapter was on-line; then it would resume and let Dag-Erling> me press a few keys before suspending again, then resume Dag-Erling> etc). It all went away when I flashed my BIOS to the Dag-Erling> latest version available on IBM's support website. Excellent suggestion -- thanks. BTW: I just backed out and installed 3.5.1-RELEASE and it doesn't suffer from the disk spin-up/down problem. So something's changed in 4.x but it wouldn't hurt to flash a modern BIOS. Thanks! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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