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Date:      Mon, 4 Dec 2000 19:09:49 +0100
From:      Jesper Skriver <jesper@skriver.dk>
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:  <20001204190949.C56540@skriver.dk>
In-Reply-To: <xzp66l0uqbv.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@ofug.org on Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 05:03:00PM %2B0100
References:  <lf1yvpqv4j.fsf@Samizdat.uucom.com> <xzp66l0uqbv.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 05:03:00PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> 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). 

Same problems with my 600E, I thought it was me going crazy ... it's
running -current as of yesterday ...

And apm is really broken on this one, it suspends fine, but when it's
about to wake up, it hangs hard, a power off (no AC adaptor and remove
battery) is the only solution.

It used to work ok until about a month or so ago ...

> It all went away when I flashed my
> BIOS to the latest version available on IBM's support website.

Will not do that, thanks for the warning.

/Jesper

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