From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Dec 6 7:32:34 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 6 07:32:32 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from Samizdat.uucom.com (samizdat.uucom.com [198.202.217.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02A5537B400 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 07:32:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (from cshenton@localhost) by Samizdat.uucom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA29378; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 10:32:11 -0500 (EST) To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Chris Shenton , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.2R on Thinkpad 560x: disk spin-up/down, *slow* (3.x was fine) References: From: Chris Shenton Date: 06 Dec 2000 10:32:11 -0500 In-Reply-To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav's message of "04 Dec 2000 17:03:00 +0100" Message-ID: Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 04 Dec 2000 17:03:00 +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav 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. I flashed to the latest BIOS for the 560X this morning, reinstalled 4.2R from boot floppy and FTP, but no joy -- same disk spin-up/down problem. The problem was not present when I installed 3.5 yesterday; what's changed in the ata/wd disk drivers? Or is this an APM type of problem? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message