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From: Tomas Bohata <gentoo@××××.cz>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/hdb performance really sucks ...
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 10:25:13
Message-Id: 42E4BFAB.1080808@birt.cz
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] /dev/hdb performance really sucks ... by Richard Watson
1 Richard Watson napsal(a):
2 > Hi - I'm getting vastly different performance results on hda (master) as
3 > opposed to hdb (slave). Basically when my root partition mounts (/dev/hdb)
4 > I'm warned that DMA is off, yet hdparm -i shows udma as active. Basically
5 > /dev/hdb performance sucks ... I've bought both drives in the last few
6 > months. The motherboard is quite old (3 years .. I think).
7 >
8 > Any suggestions would be appreciated.
9 > --
10 > Thanks - Richard
11 >
12 > =============================
13 >
14 > /dev/hda:
15 > Timing cached reads: 1360 MB in 2.00 seconds = 678.75 MB/sec
16 > Timing buffered disk reads: 146 MB in 3.03 seconds = 48.22 MB/sec
17 >
18 > /dev/hdb:
19 > Timing cached reads: 1376 MB in 2.00 seconds = 687.42 MB/sec
20 > Timing buffered disk reads: 10 MB in 3.51 seconds = 2.85 MB/sec
21 >
22 > /dev/hda:
23 >
24 > Model=Maxtor 6Y120P0, FwRev=YAR41BW0, SerialNo=Y36DHLVE
25 > Config={ Fixed }
26 > RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=57
27 > BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=7936kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
28 > CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=240121728
29 > IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
30 > PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
31 > DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
32 > UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5 udma6
33 > AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) WriteCache=enabled
34 > Drive conforms to: (null):
35 >
36 > * signifies the current active mode
37 >
38 >
39 > /dev/hdb:
40 >
41 > Model=ST3200826A, FwRev=3.03, SerialNo=5ND0CVYX
42 > Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% }
43 > RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4
44 > BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=8192kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
45 > CurCHS=65535/1/63, CurSects=4128705, LBA=yes, LBAsects=268435455
46 > IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
47 > PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
48 > DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
49 > UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
50 > AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled
51 > Drive conforms to: device does not report version:
52 >
53 > * signifies the current active mode
54 >
55 >
56
57 maybe they dont like each other, try to plug second hd to another
58 controller (hdc/hdd)
59
60 T.B.
61
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