Saifi Khan wrote: > On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Namita Iyer wrote: > > >>> >>> >> Hi Saifi, >> >> Which disks are you using ? >> Please send relevant excerpts of the 'dmesg' output. >> >> Namita >> >> > > Hi Namita: > > Thanks for your mail. > > I ran the command 'dmesg | grep hd[ab] and here is the output. > > gentoo ~ # dmesg | grep hd[ab] > Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda4 > hda: ST380011A, ATA DISK drive > hdb: ST380011A, ATA DISK drive > hda: max request size: 512KiB > hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63 > hda: cache flushes supported > hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 > hdb: max request size: 512KiB > hdb: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63 > hdb: cache flushes supported > hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 > EXT3 FS on hda4, internal journal > EXT3 FS on hda2, internal journal > Adding 2008116k swap on /dev/hda3. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:2008116k > gentoo ~ # > > What could I be missing ? > > > thanks > Saifi. >
Looks like you have two identical ATA IDE disks. Just run the timing tests on both the disks using the command 'hdparm -tT </dev/hda>' Namita
