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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!



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