Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > 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? "dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/null bs=1M"? Also, does changing IO scheduler to deadline make any difference? -- tejun - 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
