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From: Jordan Russell <jr-list-2010@quo.to>
To: Tim Small <tim@seoss.co.uk>
Cc: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Data-check brings system to a standstill
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:27:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C1BAC84.4090000@quo.to> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C1BA880.1050609@seoss.co.uk>

On 6/18/2010 12:10 PM, Tim Small wrote:
> Have things switched to AHCI (or similar SATA controller) with NCQ 
> since?  If so, do you drives have buggy firmware which makes them suck 
> with sequential reads when NCQ is enabled?  See the libata wiki for 
> details - you can try disabling NCQ (or limiting queue depth to 2, or 
> whatever) to test it....

The disks are on an older Intel 6300ESB controller, which I'm fairly
certain has no support for NCQ.

ata4.00: ATA-7: WDC WD3200YS-01PGB0, 21.00M21, max UDMA/133
ata4.00: 625142448 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/1)
ata3.00: ATA-7: WDC WD3200YS-01PGB0, 21.00M21, max UDMA/133
ata3.00: 625142448 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/1)

-- 
Jordan Russell

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-18 17:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-09 17:30 Data-check brings system to a standstill Jordan Russell
2010-06-16 16:52 ` Bill Davidsen
2010-06-18 16:54   ` Jordan Russell
2010-06-18 17:10   ` Tim Small
2010-06-18 17:27     ` Jordan Russell [this message]
2010-06-22  4:06   ` Jordan Russell
2010-06-22 18:50     ` Bill Davidsen

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