I have only one drive on the raid controller right now but the kernel wants to
keep looking for another drive and it takes a LONG time. Is there a way to
get it to not keep looking?
SiI3112 Serial ATA: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:02:04.0
SiI3112 Serial ATA: chipset revision 2
SiI3112 Serial ATA: 100% native mode on irq 21
ide2: MMIO-DMA at 0xf8806000-0xf8806007, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
ide3: MMIO-DMA at 0xf8806008-0xf880600f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
hde: ST3120023AS, ATA DISK drive
ide2 at 0xf8806080-0xf8806087,0xf880608a on irq 21
hdg: no response (status = 0xfe)
hdg: no response (status = 0xfe), resetting drive
hdg: no response (status = 0xfe)
hde: max request size: 7KiB
hde: 234441648 sectors (120034 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(133)
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4
Each of those no responses take about a minute to come back.
This is a 2.6.0-test10-mm1 kernel but it does the exact same thing on the 2.4
kernels.
Also note this is a SATA drive and the only SATA connections on the system
board are to the raid controller which doesn't allow disabling just the one
drive port.
I also seem to have a speed issue and read some stuff on the kernel list about
it and noted that someone mentioned the use of libata for this controller and
the speed shot up the 60 mb/sec! Here's mine now:
ws1 root # hdparm -tT /dev/hde
/dev/hde:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 2156 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1077.09 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 3.06 seconds = 20.88 MB/sec
ws1 root #
Here's my hdparms right now: all_args="-d1 -A1 -m16 -a16 -c3"
Just tinkering is all. Nothing has had any effect. I could take them all out
and have the same speed test results.
Sorry for the 2 parter msg. Thanks for the help!
Robert
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
