Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:44:37 -0500 | From | Mohammad Haque <> | Subject | Re: ide/disk perf? |
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Interesting theory, but no go here.
I just remembered one other thing that may have an impact. I have a IBM-DTLA-307045 (~45 GB i think) hanging off the same channel as slave. The thing with that one is that if I try to do a lot of i/o on the disk..my machine locks up. Hard. alt-sysReq doesn't even work.
I'll try disconnecting that drive when I get a chance but I welcome any feedback/theories before I get home to do this.
Andrew Morton wrote: > > I had the same problem with Seagate ST313021A (13 gig) drives on > BP6/HPT366/UDMA66. Initial throughput reported by `hdparm -t' was 22 > megs/sec which would slowly wilt to 5 megs/sec. > > I discovered that sending _any_ reconfiguration command to the drive - > even one which was not supported by that particular drive - would bring > the performance back. > > So when it goes slow, try running, say, `hdparm -A1' and see what > happens. > > Andre and I scratched each others heads for a while, suspected a > firmware bug. He sent an email to a contact at Seagate. This was in > April, so I guess that person is a very slow typist.
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