Re: [gentoo-user] One hard drive much slower for some reason.

2010-07-01 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: It hasn't mattered in the past. I'm not sure why it should matter now. I really don't see how it could matter at all really. Heck, my DVD drive is slow as it gets, its udma4, but hdc is on the same cable and it is one of the faster drives I have. That would exclude sda of cou

Re: [gentoo-user] One hard drive much slower for some reason.

2010-06-05 Thread Dale
Robert Bridge wrote: On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Dale wrote: The powered on hours is most likely about right. I rarely turn my machine off. That drive is about that old too. I don't always have it mounted but it is a pain to remove so I just left it in there in case I needed it.

Re: [gentoo-user] One hard drive much slower for some reason.

2010-06-05 Thread Robert Bridge
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Dale wrote: > The powered on hours is most likely about right.  I rarely turn my machine > off.  That drive is about that old too.  I don't always have it mounted but > it is a pain to remove so I just left it in there in case I needed it. Is it a WD Caviar Black b

Re: [gentoo-user] One hard drive much slower for some reason.

2010-06-05 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: For the record, hda and hdb are not even mounted. I am currently using hdc for the OS. The drive used to be a lot faster than this. I used it for my OS a good while back and recently used it for /var/portage and /usr/portage. I'm not sure what has chang

Re: [gentoo-user] One hard drive much slower for some reason.

2010-06-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > For the record, hda and hdb are not even mounted. I am currently using > hdc for the OS. The drive used to be a lot faster than this. I used > it for my OS a good while back and recently used it for /var/portage > and /usr/portage. I'm not sure what has changed so I can't figure

Re: [gentoo-user] One hard drive much slower for some reason.

2010-06-05 Thread Dale
Robert Bridge wrote: Hi Dale, > From the above, the reallocated sector count is fine, none of the disk seem to be having surface problems. The UDMA errors are MUCH higher for sdb, as is the power-on hours. It is claiming about 6 years powered on, which is a bit weird alright. If it is having t

Re: [gentoo-user] One hard drive much slower for some reason.

2010-06-05 Thread Robert Bridge
Hi Dale, On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 5:46 AM, Dale wrote: > > Here is that info.  I included all the IDE drives.  Sort of see if there is > something different about them. > > smoker-new ~ # smartctl -A /dev/hda >  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   253   253   063    Pre-fail  Always >   -       0 >

Re: [gentoo-user] One hard drive much slower for some reason.

2010-06-04 Thread Dale
KH wrote: Am 03.06.2010 06:46, schrieb Dale: As for the lifetimes in the report, good question. I think that drives is doing some weird stuff. It can travel back and forth in time but is slow for no apparent good reason. Dale :-) :-) Hi Dale, you just made me smile. Thank's. k

Re: [gentoo-user] One hard drive much slower for some reason.

2010-06-02 Thread KH
Am 03.06.2010 06:46, schrieb Dale: > > As for the lifetimes in the report, good question. I think that drives > is doing some weird stuff. It can travel back and forth in time but is > slow for no apparent good reason. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > Hi Dale, you just made me smile. Thank's. kh

Re: [gentoo-user] One hard drive much slower for some reason.

2010-06-02 Thread Dale
Arttu V. wrote: On 6/2/10, Dale wrote: smoker-new ~ # smartctl -l selftest /dev/hdb smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Self-test log structure revision

Re: [gentoo-user] One hard drive much slower for some reason.

2010-06-02 Thread Arttu V.
On 6/2/10, Dale wrote: > smoker-new ~ # smartctl -l selftest /dev/hdb > smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen > Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ > > === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === > SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 > N

Re: [gentoo-user] One hard drive much slower for some reason.

2010-06-02 Thread Dale
Arttu V. wrote: On 6/1/10, Dale wrote: /dev/hdb: Commands/features: Enabled Supported: *SMART feature set Maybe the problem is not external (cabling, jumpers etc), but internal? Anything interesting in smartctl's report? I did a test a few weeks ago

Re: [gentoo-user] One hard drive much slower for some reason.

2010-06-02 Thread Arttu V.
On 6/1/10, Dale wrote: > /dev/hdb: > Commands/features: > Enabled Supported: > *SMART feature set Maybe the problem is not external (cabling, jumpers etc), but internal? Anything interesting in smartctl's report? -- Arttu V.

Re: [gentoo-user] One hard drive much slower for some reason.

2010-06-02 Thread Dale
YoYo Siska wrote: On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 04:26:55AM -0500, Dale wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Dale wrote: I am in the process of moving my OS from drive to drive and thought I would test to see which drive is the fastest. I got some strange

Re: [gentoo-user] One hard drive much slower for some reason.

2010-06-02 Thread YoYo Siska
On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 04:26:55AM -0500, Dale wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Dale wrote: >> >>> I am in the process of moving my OS from drive to drive and thought I would >>> test to see which drive is the fastest. I got some strange results when I >>> test

Re: [gentoo-user] One hard drive much slower for some reason.

2010-06-01 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Dale wrote: I am in the process of moving my OS from drive to drive and thought I would test to see which drive is the fastest. I got some strange results when I tested them One drive is MUCH slower than the others on the buffered disk

Re: [gentoo-user] One hard drive much slower for some reason.

2010-05-31 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Dale wrote: > I am in the process of moving my OS from drive to drive and thought I would > test to see which drive is the fastest. I got some strange results when I > tested them One drive is MUCH slower than the others on the buffered disk > reads but I can't

[gentoo-user] One hard drive much slower for some reason.

2010-05-31 Thread Dale
Hi folks, I am in the process of moving my OS from drive to drive and thought I would test to see which drive is the fastest. I got some strange results when I tested them One drive is MUCH slower than the others on the buffered disk reads but I can't see any reason why that would be so.