From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.tiscali.be (unknown [62.235.14.106]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0D654829 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 13:41:29 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <3D824E32.2060301@freebel.net> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 20:44:34 +0000 From: Joel Soete MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thibaut VARENE Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Making SYM2 default SYM-SCSI driver instead of SYM1 References: <3D8212E7.6000609@esiee.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Hi Thibaut, Thibaut VARENE wrote: > Hi fellows ! > > Paul Bame has noticed a problem that seems to occur on B2600 with SYM1 > driver, causing the box to slow down everything and increasing the > loadavg, while top reports 99% idle. > > When this happens, one can hear HD making strange noise: two grouped > "ticks" every 2 seconds or so. > > I have experienced this behavior by myself, and it seems that using SYM2 > driver solves this problem. At a moment it solved also this problem of disk on my b2k. So for severall month now, I use only SYM2 on this b2k. More over as on a b180 I notice that SYM2 driver could also be used also, I test it with same success. (sorry I could not any more test on 712) Good idea, Joel