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List:       smartmontools-support
Subject:    [smartmontools-support]Re: default hdparms? readahead=256? Re: WD 400GB xATA Drives
From:       Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz () lucidpixels ! com>
Date:       2006-02-14 9:49:17
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.64.0602140448430.3567 () p34
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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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