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I guess I'll just leave it as is, its my office fileserver so its |
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probably not to bright to be messing with it anyway :-D |
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Frank |
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Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> Right. Try sdparm instead: |
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> lightning ~ # sdparm /dev/sda |
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> /dev/sda: ATA ST3250823AS 3.03 |
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> Read write error recovery mode page: |
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> AWRE 1 [ sav: 1] |
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> ARRE 1 [ sav: 1] |
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> PER 0 [ sav: 0] |
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> Caching (SBC) mode page: |
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> WCE 1 [ sav: 1] |
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> RCD 0 [ sav: 0] |
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> Control mode page: |
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> SWP 0 [ sav: 0] |
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> lightning ~ # |
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> |
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> I don't know how to use it, but it's there... ;-) |
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> - Mark |
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> On 10/17/05, Francisco Perez <fperez@×××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>>Well, it looks like I was able to answer my own question, apparently |
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>>hdparm doesn't do much in the way of SATA tunning because of the driver |
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>>the kernel now uses to run SATA is the SCSI driver. |
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>>Frank |
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>>Francisco Perez wrote: |
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>>>Can anyone point me to an article or some tips on my I should be setting |
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>>>in hdparm to tune my SATA setup to get some more thoroughput? I have 4 |
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>>>Seagate SATA drives plugged into an Escalade hardware Adapter running |
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>>>RAID 10. Here's what I am currently getting from HDParm: |
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>>> |
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>>>localhost ~ # hdparm -Tt /dev/sda |
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>>> |
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>>>/dev/sda: |
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>>> Timing cached reads: 3244 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1621.90 MB/sec |
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>>> Timing buffered disk reads: 150 MB in 3.04 seconds = 49.40 MB/sec |
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>>> |
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>>>localhost ~ # hdparm /dev/sda |
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>>> |
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>>>/dev/sda: |
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>>> readonly = 0 (off) |
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>>> readahead = 64 (on) |
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>>> geometry = 0/64/32, sectors = 500116226048, start = 0 |
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>>> |
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>>>I went through the man page, but its seems like everything there is |
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>>>geared towards IDE drives.(?) Or does it all apply to SATA? Thanks, I |
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>>>really appreciate it. :) |
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>>> |
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>>>Frank |
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