On Thu, 6 May 2010 12:15:58 -0400 (EDT) Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'd like to ask other people with Maxtor disks to run this script (with > "sda", "sdb", etc. as an argument ... without "/dev/" prefix). The script > measures read rate as a function of request size. Report the results, so > that it can be determined which disks are buggy and which not and the > default transfer size could be reduced to 256kB for the buggy ones. ATA MAXTOR STM316021 3.AA 64 kB: 78.9 MB/s 128 kB: 79.1 MB/s 192 kB: 79.1 MB/s 256 kB: 78.6 MB/s 320 kB: 79.1 MB/s 384 kB: 78.9 MB/s 448 kB: 79.0 MB/s 512 kB: 79.1 MB/s 576 kB: 79.0 MB/s 640 kB: 79.1 MB/s 704 kB: 79.0 MB/s 768 kB: 79.1 MB/s 832 kB: 79.0 MB/s 896 kB: 79.0 MB/s 960 kB: 79.1 MB/s 1024 kB: 78.8 MB/s -- Paolo Ornati Linux 2.6.34-rc6-00063-gbe1066b on x86_64 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html