Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 06 Aug 2004 09:49:27 -0400 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: libata: dma, io error messages |
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>>Also, the drive is extremely slow now, about 1MB/s drive transfer >>rate as reported by hdparm -T. > > Sounds like it dropped to PIO - that may be a bug triggered by the drive > failing.
That should read "hdparm -t", not "-T", right?
And the slowness is most likely due to the error recovery (retries) in the drive and/or driver, which cause the overall throughput to plummet for the measurement interval.
Cheers -- Mark Lord (hdparm keeper & the original "Linux IDE Guy") - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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