Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 13:50:12 +0200 From: Steve Mazerski <smazerski@yahoo.co.jp> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slow boot initialisation Message-ID: <200207141350.12154.smazerski@yahoo.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <200207132301.11336.smazerski@yahoo.co.jp> References: <200207132301.11336.smazerski@yahoo.co.jp>
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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
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