Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 09:05:55 -0400 From: "Gray, David" <David_W_Gray@tvratings.com> To: "'FreeBSD mobile list'" <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org> Subject: Dumb question Message-ID: <01D4D419B1A4D111A30400805FE65B13070AC274@nmrusdunsx1.nielsenmedia.com>
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I'm running 4.2R on a Toshiba Tecra 750CDT. The problem is, it doesn't get along with the ATA driver. The problem is kinda strange. If you are just doing a straight read or write to the disk (dd if=/dev/zero of=/randomfile) its good for several MB/sec. If you are doing anything 'complicated', it seems like the disk is continuously re-calibrating itself. You can hear it doing full disk seeks, several times a second, making the composite speed a few kb/sec. Compiling a kernel, for example, is very painful. There is a workaround. The wd driver works just fine, but the problem is its due for the axe, which means my laptop's life ends at 4.2 (or 4.3, whenever it goes.) Wierdly, I *have* the ATA driver compiled in (I needed it to read the flashcard from my camera), and this actually works (hey, I'm impressed.) But the question is, has anything like this been seen recently? dmesg output is available on demand... (I'm at work, it isn't) (Since i'd have to boot remotely, anybody know what I'd have to put where to get a verbose boot, without going home to babysit?) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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