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SubjectRe: default hdparms? readahead=256? Re: WD 400GB xATA Drives
Turned out I had too many devices in the box, I have removed them now, 
still getting those pesky drive errors though, I will try the hdparm soon,
thanks.


On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Mark Lord wrote:

> Linda Walsh wrote:
>> ..
>> set to known values may not contain "great values". My "readahead"
>> value seems to boot with a value of "256" for all of my drives.
>>
>> Is this not a bit "excessive"?
>
> Wow.. that does look a bit HUGE. Thanks for pointing it out,
> I'm resetting mine back to 128 for now.
>
>> Justin Piszcz wrote:
>>> When I write to this disk for a while, I see this in dmesg (only once so
>>> far):
>>>
>>> [31230.223504] ata6: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ
>>> 0xb/00/00
>>> [31230.223511] ata6: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
>>> [31230.223515] ata6: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
>>>
>>> Is there some sort of smart testing going on constantly? I only get
>>> 26-27MB/s on this 400GB/SATA/16MB/7200RPM drive. I use smartmontools to
>>> do a daily test. However, even with smart disabled, I get:
>>>
>>> # hdparm -t /dev/sde
>>> /dev/sde:
>>> Timing buffered disk reads: 78 MB in 3.06 seconds = 25.46 MB/sec
>>>
>>> Does anyone know if this drive has problems in Linux or something?
>>>
>>> [ 6.895914] Vendor: ATA Model: WDC WD4000KD-00N Rev: 01.0
> ...
>
> Some drives suck at sequential reads, in favour of doing random seeks
> very very well. Basically, the on-drive seek algorithm may not favour
> doing much read-ahead. Try "hdparm -A1" and see if that helps.
>
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