On Dienstag 24 November 2009, James wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a system with a HD in question and if
> I should rn 'hdparm' or not on this system.
>
> Dmegs shows:
>
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
> ATIIXP: IDE controller (0x1002:0x4376 rev 0x00) at PCI slot 0000:00:14.1
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.1[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
> ATIIXP: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xe400-0xe407, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
> ATIIXP: simplex device: DMA disabled
> ide1: ATIIXP Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
> Probing IDE interface ide0...
> hdb: _NEC DVD_RW ND-3550A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> hda: HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4482B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> hda: host max PIO4 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO4
> hda: host side 80-wire cable detection failed, limiting max speed to UDMA33
> hda: UDMA/33 mode selected
> hdb: host max PIO4 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO4
> hdb: UDMA/33 mode selected
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> Probing IDE interface ide1...
> Probing IDE interface ide1...
> hda: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 1536kB Cache
> Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
> hdb: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
>
> snip
>
> ata1: SATA max UDMA/100 mmio m...@0xfe02f000 tf 0xfe02f080 irq 23
> ata2: SATA max UDMA/100 mmio m...@0xfe02f000 tf 0xfe02f0c0 irq 23
> ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
> ata1.00: ATA-7: SAMSUNG HD160JJ/P, ZM100-43, max UDMA/100
> ata1.00: 312581808 sectors, multi 16: LBA48
> ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
> ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310)
>
> sata_sil 0000:00:12.0: version 2.3
> ata1: SATA max UDMA/100 mmio m...@0xfe02f000 tf 0xfe02f080 irq 23
> ata2: SATA max UDMA/100 mmio m...@0xfe02f000 tf 0xfe02f0c0 irq 23
> ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
> ata1.00: ATA-7: SAMSUNG HD160JJ/P, ZM100-43, max UDMA/100
> ata1.00: 312581808 sectors, multi 16: LBA48
> ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
> ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310)
>
>
> hdparm -iI /dev/sda reveals:
>
> /dev/sda:
>
> Model=SAMSUNG, FwRev=ZM100-43, SerialNo=S0DFJ10L405433
> Config={ Fixed }
> RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=34902, SectSize=554, ECCbytes=4
> BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=8192kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
> CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=312581808
> IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
> PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
> DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
> UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
> AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled
> Drive conforms to: unknown: ATA/ATAPI-1,2,3,4,5,6,7
>
> * signifies the current active mode
>
>
> ATA device, with non-removable media
> Model Number: SAMSUNG HD160JJ/P
> Serial Number: S0DFJ10L405433
> Firmware Revision: ZM100-43
> Standards:
> Used: ATA/ATAPI-7 T13 1532D revision 4a
> Supported: 7 6 5 4 & some of 8
> Configuration:
> Logical max current
> cylinders 16383 16383
> heads 16 16
> sectors/track 63 63
> --
> CHS current addressable sectors: 16514064
> LBA user addressable sectors: 268435455
> LBA48 user addressable sectors: 312581808
> Logical/Physical Sector size: 512 bytes
> device size with M = 1024*1024: 152627 MBytes
> device size with M = 1000*1000: 160041 MBytes (160 GB)
> cache/buffer size = 8192 KBytes (type=DualPortCache)
> Capabilities:
> LBA, IORDY(can be disabled)
> Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard, no device specific
> minimum R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16 Current = 16
> DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
> Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns
> PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
> Cycle time: no flow control=120ns IORDY flow control=120ns
> Commands/features:
> Enabled Supported:
> * SMART feature set
> Security Mode feature set
> * Power Management feature set
> * Write cache
> * Look-ahead
> * WRITE_BUFFER command
> * READ_BUFFER command
> * NOP cmd
> * DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE
> * 48-bit Address feature set
> * Device Configuration Overlay feature set
> * Mandatory FLUSH_CACHE
> * FLUSH_CACHE_EXT
> * SMART error logging
> * SMART self-test
> * General Purpose Logging feature set
> * Segmented DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE
> * Gen1 signaling speed (1.5Gb/s)
> * Gen2 signaling speed (3.0Gb/s)
> * Host-initiated interface power management
> * Phy event counters
> Device-initiated interface power management
> * Software settings preservation
> * SMART Command Transport (SCT) feature set
> * SCT Long Sector Access (AC1)
> * SCT LBA Segment Access (AC2)
> * SCT Error Recovery Control (AC3)
> * SCT Features Control (AC4)
> * SCT Data Tables (AC5)
> Security:
> Master password revision code = 65534
> supported
> not enabled
> not locked
> frozen
> not expired: security count
> supported: enhanced erase
> 90min for SECURITY ERASE UNIT. 88min for ENHANCED SECURITY ERASE
> UNIT. Checksum: correct
>
>
>
> /etc/fstab:
> /dev/sda2 /boot reiserfs defaults 1 2
> /dev/sda3 / reiserfs defaults 0 1
> /dev/sda5 /usr/local reiserfs defaults 0 1
> /dev/sda6 none swap sw 0 0
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
>
>
> So should I remove hdparm and install sdparm?
> It's been a long time since I've seen this system.
>
> hdparm is in the default run level, but does not
> make since on this drive? (just looking for comments
> and confirmation that hdparm is not needed for the
> this drive....
>
>
> James
>
>
> /etc/fstab
>
no, just leave hdparm. sdparm and hdparm have different features.
But you don't need to run hdparm as a boot service anymore (except maybe for
your optical drive. Maybe.)
