This is the stat on my WD drive (10gig)
/dev/hda:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.83 seconds = 69.95 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 3.61 seconds = 17.73 MB/sec
On Monday 16 December 2002 12:30 pm, J. Grant wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here's a common joke, How do you bring a computer to its knees? Put a WD
> drive in it! as they don't follow the standards or support their drives
> under free software OS's.
>
> This is why you dont want WD, email them and tell them this as well.
> I've got an 80GB drive running about twice as fast as a floppy disk..
> (well nearly ;)))
>
> JG
>
> # hdparm -i /dev/hde
>
> /dev/hde:
>
> Model=WDC WD800BB-00CAA1, FwRev=17.07W17, SerialNo=WD-WMA8E3405796
> Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec SpinMotCtl Fixed DTR>5Mbs FmtGapReq
> } RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=57600, SectSize=600, ECCbytes=40
> BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
> CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=156301488
> IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
> PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
> DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
> UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2
> AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled
> Drive conforms to: device does not report version: 1 2 3 4 5
>
> James Sparenberg wrote:
> > Civilme should be here on this one. If you do a search through the
> > archives for Civilme + Western Digital you'll find a more complete
> > explanation but if I remember right it has something to do with the way
> > WD has chosen to not follow DMA standards. Linux does rather strict
> > checking and WD doesn't so WD drives can be problematic.
> >
> > James
> >
> > On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 06:28, Lorne wrote:
> >>Well it seems that this is more serious than I first thought. I just
> >> tried an install to this new WD 180GB drive. Seems there is some
> >> limitations to the size of the drive, or the drive is junk. ?? Maybe
> >> truly a kernel bug. ?
> >>
> >>End_request: I/O error, Dev 03:47 (hdb), sector <numerous sectors>
> >>Journal-601, buffer write failed
> >>Kernel BUG at prints.c:334!
> >>invalid operand: 0000
> >>cpu 0
> >>
> >>Then a dump. I've taken a photo of it if the actual text is helpful. I've
> >> done some reading that WD drives don't work well with Linux? Anybody
> >> have any light to shed?
> >>
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