From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 12 20:56:33 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81C201065674 for ; Wed, 12 May 2010 20:56:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gy0-f182.google.com (mail-gy0-f182.google.com [209.85.160.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68FC58FC1E for ; Wed, 12 May 2010 20:56:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyh20 with SMTP id 20so276946gyh.13 for ; Wed, 12 May 2010 13:56:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=KWEQxSj7HAFBpa8vi79sYSTwzYwr7KIkg09/u00f2HU=; b=wHISO+/N+a0J4Gs0BF2ScMqqEAUReSSbDJmogtQmgQOnP//KowQ8fi5R7fz+HWFSHO k1ZnjJU1lqL+VgjZloiWn+lU3mYO/mmsEi008f80pBGVIE7gao+HOQROUwQaAKbRIMW3 qVxHyBkMzmrFya/D579W+2mYhdHikStmxKbeU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=VE4sIxa7HI+nsUS6NIyluhRtgevR31CBIKY3L7JHOg7Yz2x0WoZZG+MrBk89VWaLeW HId6M8vN8HeEks1PtV5w50XsAy69nN9J5lFhq0jHuU6+o9mFE06tMYYaixfFUIipcbcF bqATYetI0WgddVU508IUM+mhaN9xniYZrjp8M= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.193.9 with SMTP id ds9mr824814qcb.124.1273697791537; Wed, 12 May 2010 13:56:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.99.67 with HTTP; Wed, 12 May 2010 13:56:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201005122049.o4CKn7kS080566@lava.sentex.ca> References: <201005121456.o4CEurEZ078671@lava.sentex.ca> <201005122049.o4CKn7kS080566@lava.sentex.ca> Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 15:56:31 -0500 Message-ID: From: Adam Vande More To: Mike Tancsa Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: "A. Wright" , FreeBSD - Subject: Re: Long I/O pauses on same mass storage X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 20:56:33 -0000 On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 04:27 PM 5/12/2010, A. Wright wrote: > === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === > >> Device Model: WDC WD15EARS-00S8B1 >> Serial Number: WD-WCAVY2700359 >> > > Isnt that one of those Western Digital Green drives ? I seem to recall a > number of people complaining about similar issues where the drive stalls. > Perhaps a firmware update ? Or perhaps a way to disable the power > saving/spin down features ? Is your controller set to AHCI, or regular > SATA. what does /var/run/dmesg.boot show ? > In addition to what I pointed out earlier, I believe that is also a 4k sector drive. You'll need to align your partitions accordingly. -- Adam Vande More