* Hemmann, Volker Armin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Sunday 08 June 2003 05:38, Stroller wrote:
> > On 8/6/03 3:05 am, "Dhruba Bandopadhyay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 20:06, Stroller wrote:

============================> snip <==========================

> >   [EMAIL PROTECTED] stroller $ sudo /sbin/hdparm -i /dev/hda
> >
> >   /dev/hda:
> >
> >    Model=IBM-DARA-212000, FwRev=AR4OA53A, SerialNo=AH0AHJ80443
> >    Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
> >    RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4
> >    BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=418kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
> >    CurCHS=17475/15/63, CurSects=16513875, LBA=yes, LBAsects=23579136
> >    IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,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 udma3 udma4
> >    AdvancedPM=yes: mode=0x80 (128) WriteCache=enabled
> >    Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-4 T13 1153D revision 17:  1 2 3 4
> >
> >   [EMAIL PROTECTED] stroller $
> >
> > Maybe this hard-drive is just a particularly slow one, as Volker
> > suggests..? But is seems SO considerably much slower than all the other
> > hdparm results I've seen posted.   8-[

How about this for slow:

iris root # hdparm -Tt /dev/hde

/dev/hde:
  Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  1.25 seconds =102.40 MB/sec
  Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  1.75 seconds = 36.47 MB/sec
  

iris root # hdparm -Tt /dev/hdf

/dev/hdf:
  Timing buffer-cache reads:   -3008 MB in  0.00 seconds =  -inf kB/sec
  Timing buffered disk reads:  -1504 MB in  0.00 seconds =  -inf kB/sec
  Hmm.. suspicious results: probably not enough free memory for a proper test.
      
Both drives are hooked to an HT370 RAID controller (onboard).  RAID is
not used, just the UDMA/100 interface.  hde is 2 years old, and hdf is
two weeks old.  Something odd is going on here; I have 512M RAM and only
about 256M of that in use.  Both drives have identical settings:

    multcount    = 16 (on)
    IO_support   =  1 (32-bit)
    unmaskirq    =  1 (on)
    using_dma    =  1 (on)
    keepsettings =  1 (on)
    readonly     =  0 (off)
    readahead    =  8 (on)

In fact, the drives are idential WD drives, except that hde the 40G version,
and hdf is the 80G version.
 

-- 

Leslie C. Miller        
LHH 447 
Dept. of Philosophy
Mesa State College
Grand Junction, CO 81506

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