Date: 04 Dec 2000 17:03:00 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Chris Shenton <cshenton@OutBounderInc.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.2R on Thinkpad 560x: disk spin-up/down, *slow* (3.x was fine) Message-ID: <xzp66l0uqbv.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Chris Shenton's message of "03 Dec 2000 12:20:44 -0500" References: <lf1yvpqv4j.fsf@Samizdat.uucom.com>
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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). 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
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