After installing 4.2-RELEASE, the internal hard disk made disk spin-up and spin-down kinds of noises when accessing files. It didn't do this with 3.4 which I had been running. I tried 4.1-RELEASE and had the same problem. So I tried 3.5-RELEASE and the problem went away. Something with the 4.x series. The spin up/down noise sounds like what it does when APM tells it to spin- down. It make the system *VERY* slow. Doing a "config" on GENERIC kernel takes many many times as long as it used to. Oddly, doing something like "ls -lR /etc" doesn't seem to be impacted -- I'm guessing it's the way 4.x accesses the disks. The machine is basically unusable with 4.x, and I wanted to upgrade from 3.x to get access to my PCMCIA SCSI card. How-To-Repeat: Install 4.x RELEASE from kern/mfsroot floppies, then install OS via FTP from primary site. Reboot. You can hear this first when the OS install is doing the "making the devices" portion of the install.
State Changed From-To: open->feedback Does this problem still occur?
Adding to the audit trail: In message <87n11jafpm.fsf@thanatos.shenton.org>, Chris Shenton writes: ><iedowse@FreeBSD.org> writes: > >> Synopsis: 4.x causes Thinkpad 560X disk to spin up/down, very slow >> >> State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback >> State-Changed-By: iedowse >> State-Changed-When: Sun Nov 18 11:06:19 PST 2001 >> State-Changed-Why: >> >> Does this problem still occur? >> >> http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=23548 > >Yes. I have 4.4-RELEASE on it now, and it still does this. >Didn't happen under 3.x, nor under NT. :-( > >I first notice it during install from Floppy+FTP when it goes to make >the devices.
In message <87n11jafpm.fsf@thanatos.shenton.org>, Chris Shenton writes: ><iedowse@FreeBSD.org> writes: >> State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback >> State-Changed-By: iedowse >> State-Changed-When: Sun Nov 18 11:06:19 PST 2001 >> State-Changed-Why: >>> >>> Does this problem still occur? >>> http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=23548 >> >>Yes. I have 4.4-RELEASE on it now, and it still does this. >>Didn't happen under 3.x, nor under NT. :-( >> >>I first notice it during install from Floppy+FTP when it goes to make >>the devices. Have you tried any newwer release since? What about 4.5-RELEASE or 4.6.2-RELEASE? - Giorgos
Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org> writes: > Have you tried any newwer release since? > What about 4.5-RELEASE or 4.6.2-RELEASE? I can't remember what I'm running now -- 4.5-STABLE I think. It seems to have fixed it, but I was also messing with IBM's utility "ps.exe" to tweak the power-management stuff. I can't get to the box right now to verify so I'll have to get back to you. I thought I filed a PR follow-up on this a few months back when I installed the new OS, but can't find it. Sorry.
State Changed From-To: feedback->closed Submitter has mailed me that it's ok to close this, since he can't reproduce the problem on the machine that's now running 4.6-PRERELEASE. It is also possible that is was fixed by fiddling with IBM's ps.exe utility, but he can't remember if that was the case.
I noticed this bug in the data base. I installed two IBM Deskstar 120GXP 120GB drive <http://www.storage.ibm.com/hdd/desk/ds120gxp.htm> a couple of months ago and found that the drives spin up and down on each access to the drives. I have found no help from IBM on this problem (I can send correspondence if requested). Any thoughts? Here is the detail on the OS and machine... Tim -- > dmesg Copyright (c) 1992-2002 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE #0: Tue Jun 11 06:14:12 GMT 2002 murray@builder.freebsdmall.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (800.03-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x683 Stepping = 3 Features=0x383fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE> real memory = 671023104 (655296K bytes) config> di lnc0 config> di ie0 config> di fe0 config> di ed0 config> di cs0 config> q avail memory = 647217152 (632048K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc04d0000. Preloaded userconfig_script "/boot/kernel.conf" at 0xc04d009c. Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled md0: Malloc disk Using $PIR table, 13 entries at 0xc00fdef0 npx0: <math processor> on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: <ServerWorks NB6635 3.0LE host to PCI bridge> on motherboard pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0 fxp0: <Intel Pro 10/100B/100+ Ethernet> port 0x1800-0x183f mem 0xfd000000-0xfd0fffff,0xfd100000-0xfd100fff irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci0 fxp0: Ethernet address 00:e0:18:c4:db:9c inphy0: <i82555 10/100 media interface> on miibus0 inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto pci0: <ATI Mach64-GR graphics accelerator> at 7.0 isab0: <ServerWorks IB6566 PCI to ISA bridge> at device 15.0 on pci0 isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0 atapci0: <ServerWorks ROSB4 ATA33 controller> port 0x1840-0x184f at device 15.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 ohci0: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> mem 0xfd102000-0xfd102fff irq 10 at device 15.2 on pci0 usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support usb0: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> on ohci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: (unknown) OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered pcib5: <ServerWorks NB6635 3.0LE host to PCI bridge> on motherboard pci5: <PCI bus> on pcib5 sym0: <896> port 0x1c00-0x1cff mem 0xfd110000-0xfd111fff,0xfd112000-0xfd1123ff irq 5 at device 5.0 on pci5 sym0: Symbios NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-40, SE, parity checking sym0: open drain IRQ line driver, using on-chip SRAM sym0: using LOAD/STORE-based firmware. sym0: handling phase mismatch from SCRIPTS. sym1: <896> port 0x2000-0x20ff mem 0xfd114000-0xfd115fff,0xfd112400-0xfd1127ff irq 9 at device 5.1 on pci5 sym1: Symbios NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-40, LVD, parity checking sym1: open drain IRQ line driver, using on-chip SRAM sym1: using LOAD/STORE-based firmware. sym1: handling phase mismatch from SCRIPTS. orm0: <Option ROMs> at iomem 0xc0000-0xca7ff,0xca800-0xce7ff on isa0 fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: model IntelliMouse, device ID 3 vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 ppc0: parallel port not found. ata0-slave: ATAPI identify retries exceeded ad2: 117800MB <IC35L120AVVA07-0> [239340/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA33 ad3: 117800MB <IC35L120AVVA07-0> [239340/16/63] at ata1-slave UDMA33 acd0: CDROM <CD-540E> at ata0-master PIO4 Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle (noperiph:sym0:0:-1:-1): SCSI BUS reset delivered. (noperiph:sym1:0:-1:-1): SCSI BUS reset delivered. sa0 at sym0 bus 0 target 2 lun 0 sa0: <HP C1537A L907> Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device sa0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 31) da1 at sym0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 da1: <IBM DDYS-T09170N S96H> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da1: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 31, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled da1: 8748MB (17916240 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1115C) da0 at sym0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: <HP 9.10GB C 68-BX02 BX02> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 31, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled da0: 8678MB (17773524 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1106C) Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0s1