Kalin KOZHUHAROV <kalin <at> thinrope.net> writes:
>
> A closer examination of the drive:
> (Model=ST3300831AS, FwRev=3.03, SerialNo=3NF07KA1 )
> and why is it so slow revealed that it was running not in UDMA.
>
> Got one total oops, even no logs were written to disk.
> Seems that rsync-ing huge amounts of data (200 GB in *many* small files)
streses the system too much.
It seems that you are using the IDE-SATA driver... perhaps you should try the
SCSI-SATA (i.e. libata)? The IDE one is deprecated and should no longer be
used. Disable SATA from in the IDE menu and enable the SCSI libata driver for
your chipset (in the scsi kernel menu).
Also the reason you don't get higher UDMA modes is because your drive is a
blacklisted seagate. There are known problems with some of those drives, and so
they are downgraded to slower modes (this was mentioned in your kernel log if
you look closely). If you upgrade the BIOS on your harddrive, you _might_ be
able to remove the drive from the blacklist in the kernel to improve
performance... this may be dangerous however, so don't complain if you lose your
data.
Aric Cyr wrote:
> Kalin KOZHUHAROV <kalin <at> thinrope.net> writes:
>
>
>>A closer examination of the drive:
>> (Model=ST3300831AS, FwRev=3.03, SerialNo=3NF07KA1 )
>>and why is it so slow revealed that it was running not in UDMA.
>>
>>Got one total oops, even no logs were written to disk.
>>Seems that rsync-ing huge amounts of data (200 GB in *many* small files)
>>streses the system too much.
>
> It seems that you are using the IDE-SATA driver... perhaps you should try the
> SCSI-SATA (i.e. libata)? The IDE one is deprecated and should no longer be
> used. Disable SATA from in the IDE menu and enable the SCSI libata driver for
> your chipset (in the scsi kernel menu).
Well, well, well... Cal me blind, but I didn't realize that this
machine is still running on IDE-SATA (as if the hdg was not enough).
My other machines are with libata for a long time, but this was just
running, so I `make oldconfig` only the other night. Now that I
rebooted it into the new kernel, it says at boot:
===
libata version 1.12 loaded.
sata_sil version 0.9
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC3] enabled at IRQ 18
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:0b.0[A] -> Link [APC3] -> GSI 18 (level, high) -> IRQ 16
ata1: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF8802080 ctl 0xF880208A bmdma 0xF8802000 irq 16
ata2: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF88020C0 ctl 0xF88020CA bmdma 0xF8802008 irq 16
ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:74eb 83:7f63 84:4003 85:74e9 86:3c43 87:4003 88:207f
ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 72303840 sectors: lba48
ata1(0): applying bridge limits
ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100
scsi0 : sata_sil
ata2: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7d01 84:4023 85:3469 86:3c01 87:4023 88:207f
ata2: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 586072368 sectors: lba48
ata2: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100
scsi1 : sata_sil
Vendor: ATA Model: WDC WD360GD-00FL Rev: 21.0
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Vendor: ATA Model: ST3300831AS Rev: 3.03
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
SCSI device sda: 72303840 512-byte hdwr sectors (37020 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sda: 72303840 512-byte hdwr sectors (37020 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
sda: sda1 sda2
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sdb: 586072368 512-byte hdwr sectors (300069 MB)
SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sdb: 586072368 512-byte hdwr sectors (300069 MB)
SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
sdb: sdb1
Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
===
However hdparm does not work now :-(
# hdparm -i /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
After upgrading to hdparm-6.1 (not sure it was necessary) "-i" still fails, but:
# hdparm /dev/sdb
/dev/sdb:
IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 256 (on)
geometry = 36481/255/63, sectors = 586072368, start = 0
# hdparm -t /dev/sdb
/dev/sdb:
Timing buffered disk reads: 176 MB in 3.01 seconds = 58.43 MB/sec
HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
I don't like the error MSG above, but 58MB/s is not bad, compared to 36.5MB/s with ide-sata driver!
My other 10k rpm SATA drive (WD360GD-00FL) has not changed from 62MB/s.
Now, the long run will show how stable is that.
Might be a stupid question... but is UDMA relevant to SATA drives run by libata??
If yes, how do I get the current value of it?
> Also the reason you don't get higher UDMA modes is because your drive is a
> blacklisted seagate. There are known problems with some of those drives, and so
> they are downgraded to slower modes (this was mentioned in your kernel log if
> you look closely).
Well, I thought that was a problem with some early Seagate drives some 6-9 months ago.
That is my first Seagate SATA drive, I have always used (many) WDs till now, but the
shop didn't have any 300GB WD at that time.
> If you upgrade the BIOS on your harddrive, you _might_ be
> able to remove the drive from the blacklist in the kernel to improve
> performance... this may be dangerous however, so don't complain if you lose your
> data.
And upgrading firmware to a harddrive is done how?
Done on my BIOSes, my Plextor CD-Rs and DVD+RWs, but on a hard drive?
Any pointers, or that was just a random thought :-)
According to linux-2.6.13/drivers/scsi/sata_sil.c:94 my drives are not blacklisted.
Kalin.
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