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From: Thomas Pilarski <Thomas.Pilarski@arcor.de>
To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [Bug 12309] Large I/O operations result in slow performance and high iowait times
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2010 21:19:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1270322388.26420.56.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100331002549.GB9925@khazad-dum.debian.net>

> > This problem is enormous increased, while the ultra bay disc is acceded
> > with udma2 instead of udma6 (caused by another bug), 
> 
> There is a thinkpad BIOS bug that could cause that: it will not signal a
> 80-wire cable when you hot-add an HD on a PATA ultrabay.  Exists at least on
> all T4x, including the T43.

It's a SATA untrabay disk. There is a 40-wire message, but sometimes it
works and sometimes not. I could not figure out, when it does and when
not. 

> The fix is to whitelist these thinkpads for high-speed UDMA even on 40-wire
> cables.  The workaround is to add a kernel command line parameter (I forget
> which).
> 
> Does that match your udma2 instead of udma6 problem?

Thanks. I will try it. But have to finish another project first. 




  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-03 19:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <bug-12309-14043@http.bugzilla.kernel.org/>
     [not found] ` <201003162357.o2GNvkNF024562@demeter.kernel.org>
2010-03-30  7:44   ` [Bug 12309] Large I/O operations result in slow performance and high iowait times Thomas Pilarski
2010-03-31  0:25     ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2010-04-03 19:19       ` Thomas Pilarski [this message]
2010-04-04  2:08         ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
     [not found] <20091101134207.b97e4f5f.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2009-11-02 15:56 ` Mike Galbraith
2009-11-02 20:26   ` Thomas Pilarski
2009-11-03  9:47     ` Mike Galbraith

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