On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 01:07 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > I just now realize that all disk i.o. on my machine is quite slow > > compared with the pata disks I had before. Furthermore I recognized that > > I only have seagates (ST3400832AS,ST3400620AS,ST3750640AS,ST3750640AS) > > connected to a sil3114 controller. > > > > Being on kernel 2.6.23.1 and stumbling across > > http://home-tj.org/wiki/index.php/Sil_m15w I am now wondering if this > > patch made it already in kernel (or when it will make it if it is not > > yet in/why never). > > Are you sure you have a 3114? the mod15write isn't applied to that chip. > Does your dmesg say "applying Seagate errata fix (mod15write workaround)" ? At least lspci / dmesg indicates I have a 3114 ... but maybe the problem is something else. Is there a raw device speed, readonly benchmark to check whether things are as expected? Soeren - lspci 00:0e.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3114 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02) 00:0e.0 0104: 1095:3114 (rev 02) - dmesg sata_sil 0000:00:0e.0: version 2.3 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0e.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 sata_sil 0000:00:0e.0: Applying R_ERR on DMA activate FIS errata fix scsi3 : sata_sil scsi4 : sata_sil scsi5 : sata_sil scsi6 : sata_sil ata4: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xf882e080 ctl 0xf882e08a bmdma 0xf882e000 irq 17 ata5: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xf882e0c0 ctl 0xf882e0ca bmdma 0xf882e008 irq 17 ata6: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xf882e280 ctl 0xf882e28a bmdma 0xf882e200 irq 17 ata7: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xf882e2c0 ctl 0xf882e2ca bmdma 0xf882e208 irq 17 ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) ata4.00: ATA-7: ST3400832AS, 3.01, max UDMA/133 ata4.00: 781422768 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32) ata4.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata5: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) ata5.00: ATA-7: ST3400620AS, 3.AAE, max UDMA/133 ata5.00: 781422768 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32) ata5.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata6: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) ata6.00: ATA-7: ST3750640AS, 3.AAE, max UDMA/133 ata6.00: 1465149168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32) ata6.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata7: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) ata7.00: ATA-7: ST3750640AS, 3.AAC, max UDMA/133 ata7.00: 1465149168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32) ata7.00: configured for UDMA/100 scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST3400832AS 3.01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 sd 3:0:0:0: [sda] 781422768 512-byte hardware sectors (400088 MB) sd 3:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 3:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 3:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sd 3:0:0:0: [sda] 781422768 512-byte hardware sectors (400088 MB) sd 3:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 3:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 3:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sda: unknown partition table sd 3:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST3400620AS 3.AA PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] 781422768 512-byte hardware sectors (400088 MB) sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] 781422768 512-byte hardware sectors (400088 MB) sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sdb: unknown partition table sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0 scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST3750640AS 3.AA PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] 1465149168 512-byte hardware sectors (750156 MB) sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] 1465149168 512-byte hardware sectors (750156 MB) sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sdc: unknown partition table sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST3750640AS 3.AA PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 sd 6:0:0:0: [sdd] 1465149168 512-byte hardware sectors (750156 MB) sd 6:0:0:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off sd 6:0:0:0: [sdd] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 6:0:0:0: [sdd] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sd 6:0:0:0: [sdd] 1465149168 512-byte hardware sectors (750156 MB) sd 6:0:0:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off sd 6:0:0:0: [sdd] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 6:0:0:0: [sdd] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sdd: unknown partition table sd 6:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI disk sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
