From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 14 5:31:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1A1937B400 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 05:31:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.webmailer.de (natwar.webmailer.de [192.67.198.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C33A243E3B for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 05:31:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from smazerski@yahoo.co.jp) Received: from ianb (pD9E0E5B4.dip.t-dialin.net [217.224.229.180]) by post.webmailer.de (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA12657 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 13:48:48 +0200 (MEST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Steve Mazerski To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slow boot initialisation Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 13:50:12 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] References: <200207132301.11336.smazerski@yahoo.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <200207132301.11336.smazerski@yahoo.co.jp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200207141350.12154.smazerski@yahoo.co.jp> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Here's some further information: On Saturday 13 July 2002 23:01, Steve Mazerski wrote: (...) > Every time the "waiting" symbols (i.e. the ASCII chars |/-\ ) appears, = the > system seems to be doing a series of seeks to each hard disks > alternatively, but nothing else apart from keeping the "waiting" symbol > turning. The sound is a sort of "twang twock". By disconnecting all other drives I have determined that the sound is coming from the primary IDE drive ( WDC AC28400R ). With this drive disconnect I did a fresh install on a couple of ancient=20 drives. FreeBSD booted from these without displaying the problem described, which leads me to believe the problem lies with Wester= n Digital itself. Drive: Western Digital WDC AC28400R Board: Asus P5A-B , BIOS version 1005 Chipset: ALI15X3 BIOS settings for the drives are as autodetected, I am not an avid BIOS tweaker. I haven't found any references to this kind of problem through google etc. It's damned annoying, I was hoping to be worrying myself with more trivial problems like Flash Player for Mozilla by now ;-) Any ideas? S.Mazerski To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message