Re: Dog slow IDE

[Mark Cooke]

Hi Tony,

Just a me too earlier today with 2.4.19-pre2-ac4, on a dual celeron
440BX-based system.

Im my case, I have 3 hdds in a raid-5, hda, hdb, and hdc.

hda and hdb were both performing as expected 18-22MB/sec.  hdc was 
down at the 1.8-2.2MB/sec - even after trying to use hdparm to reset
the drive transfer rates (-p, -d1 -X66, -d0 -X12 (to try pio) etc).

None of the attempts using hdparm altered the hdc transfer rate in any
noticable fashion.  I powered down the machine, and on reboot, the hdc
transfer rate returned to the expected range 18-22MB/sec), and the
raid performance went up to it's usual level from the 5MB/sec it was
showing.

I couldn't see any reason for the odd behaviour, and I had put it down
to 'just one of those things' as the 3 or 4 test reboots since haven't
produced the strangely low-transfer rate again.

Cheers,

Mark

On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Tony Hoyle wrote:

> For some reason the my IDE is running extremely slow (which accounts for 
> why this box feels so sluggish).

<snip>

> However:
> 
> /dev/hda:
>   Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in 16.27 seconds =  3.93 MB/sec
> 
> /dev/hdb:
>   Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in 32.99 seconds =  1.94 MB/sec
> 
> 1.94MB/sec is *way* to slow for a UDMA5 hard disk surely?

Yes.  On another system, I pull 35-40MB/sec off each individual
barracuda IV drive, and 50+ from the combined raid array (I assume PCI 
bandwidth limited, as twiddling BIOS PCI settings boosted this from 41 
to 50).

Regards,

Mark

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