> Ideas: > 1. Fragmented files?
the disk contains no data. formatted with ext3. > > 2. Overload of your computer's power supply, causing it to > supply reduced voltages to some peripherals, which causes > them to make too many soft errors? if so, why is it the only device affected ? > 3. Somewhat defective ribbon, which causes the same result? > > Do you have a disk testing program suitable for your hard > disk, which would let you check the hard disk and see if it > has unusually high rate of soft errors (for IBM produced hard > disks, there is such a test program, which is provided together > with Disk Manager)? dont have. do you happen to remember what its called ? because i dont see anything at ibm's page. > --- Omer > There is no IGLU Cabal. Errors were made and recovered from > with no error messages and no statistics, until that fateful > day.... WARNING TO SPAMMERS: see at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html > > On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, tal amir wrote: > > > i am having the strangest problem : > > > > > around 2 days ago one of my four disks (seagate ST330620A) started to respond very >slowly. > > this happened without me changing any of its parameter's or moving it to another > > ide channel or anything. > > it gives me about 4mbps, unlike all the others that give 20-35 mbps : > > > > > > [root@whatsup home]# hdparm -t /dev/hda > > > > /dev/hda: > > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.82 seconds = 35.16 MB/sec > > [root@whatsup home]# hdparm -t /dev/hdb > > > > /dev/hdb: > > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 15.55 seconds = 4.12 MB/sec > > [root@whatsup home]# hdparm -t /dev/hdc > > > > /dev/hdc: > > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.92 seconds = 21.92 MB/sec > > [root@whatsup home]# hdparm -t /dev/hdd > > > > /dev/hdd: > > Timing buffered disk reads:64 MB in 3.12 seconds = 20.51 MB/sec > > [root@whatsup home]# > > > > > > so the disk writing is slow, but the cash writing is fast : > > > > [root@whatsup home]# hdparm -T /dev/hda > > > > /dev/hda: > > Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.61 seconds =209.84 MB/sec > > [root@whatsup home]# hdparm -T /dev/hdb > > > > /dev/hdb: > > Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.60 seconds =213.33 MB/sec > > [root@whatsup home]# hdparm -T /dev/hdc > > > > /dev/hdc: > > Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.61 seconds =209.84 MB/sec > > [root@whatsup home]# hdparm -T /dev/hdd > > > > /dev/hdd: > > Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.60 seconds =213.33 MB/sec > > [root@whatsup home]# > > > > i am using ext3 on all 4 disks (not that the filesystem suppose to change much in > > this case). > > > > this is mandrake 8.1, Linux version 2.4.8-26mdk . > > this is the only seagate drive, the 3 others are IBM-DTLA-307030, all of them > > are 7200 rpm. > > > > any idea what might couse this ? > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Amir Tal > > System Administrator > > icq : 15748705 > > http://whatsup.homelinux.com > > ------------------------------- > > > > > > ================================================================= > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Amir Tal System Administrator icq : 15748705 http://whatsup.homelinux.com ------------------------------- ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
