Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 17:10:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 17:10:36 -0500 Received: from mgr4.xmission.com ([198.60.22.204]:32992 "EHLO mgr4.xmission.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 17:10:34 -0500 Message-ID: <3E345F07.60307@xmission.com> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 15:19:51 -0700 From: Frank Jacobberger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030123 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tom@qwws.net CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: poor IDE performance on ASUS P4PE with WD800JB References: <200301262039.38783.tom@qwws.net> In-Reply-To: <200301262039.38783.tom@qwws.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Tom Winkler wrote: >Hi, > >I've asked this question in several Newsgroups but nobody was really >able to answer it. That's why I decided to send it to LKM. Please CC >me on your replies. Thanks! > >I've got a question related to ide performance. >First of all my hardware: >Mainboard: ASUS P4PE (using onboard IDE but not S-ATA) > http://www.asus.com/products/mb/socket478/p4pe/overview.htm >Harddisk: Western Digital WD800JB > http://www.westerndigital.com/products/products.asp?DriveID=32 > Well I have the same P4PE and here are mine: hdparm -I /dev/hda /dev/hda: ATA device, with non-removable media Model Number: WDC WD300BB-00AUA1 Serial Number: WD-WMA6W2128969 Firmware Revision: 18.20D18 Standards: Supported: 5 4 3 2 Likely used: 6 Configuration: Logical max current cylinders 16383 16383 heads 16 16 sectors/track 63 63 -- CHS current addressable sectors: 16514064 LBA user addressable sectors: 58633344 device size with M = 1024*1024: 28629 MBytes device size with M = 1000*1000: 30020 MBytes (30 GB) Capabilities: LBA, IORDY(can be disabled) bytes avail on r/w long: 40 Queue depth: 1 Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard, with device specific minimum R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16 Current = 16 Recommended acoustic management value: 128, current value: 254 DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5 Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 Cycle time: no flow control=120ns IORDY flow control=120ns Commands/features: Enabled Supported: * READ BUFFER cmd * WRITE BUFFER cmd * Host Protected Area feature set * Look-ahead * Write cache * Power Management feature set Security Mode feature set SMART feature set Automatic Acoustic Management feature set SET MAX security extension * DOWNLOAD MICROCODE cmd Security: supported not enabled not locked not frozen not expired: security count not supported: enhanced erase HW reset results: CBLID- above Vih Device num = 0 determined by the jumper ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- hdparm -tT /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.35 seconds =365.71 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.00 seconds = 32.00 MB/sec ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ cat /proc/ide/hda/settings name value min max mode ---- ----- --- --- ---- acoustic 0 0 254 rw address 0 0 2 rw bios_cyl 3649 0 65535 rw bios_head 255 0 255 rw bios_sect 63 0 63 rw breada_readahead 8 0 255 rw bswap 0 0 1 r current_speed 69 0 70 rw failures 0 0 65535 rw file_readahead 124 0 16384 rw init_speed 69 0 70 rw io_32bit 0 0 3 rw keepsettings 0 0 1 rw lun 0 0 7 rw max_failures 1 0 65535 rw max_kb_per_request 128 1 255 rw multcount 16 0 16 rw nice1 1 0 1 rw nowerr 0 0 1 rw number 0 0 3 rw pio_mode write-only 0 255 w slow 0 0 1 rw unmaskirq 0 0 1 rw using_dma 1 0 1 rw wcache 0 0 1 rw - 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/