Re: Silicon Image 3112A SATA trouble

Craig Bradney
2003-11-30T21:15:30Z

On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 19:41, Luis Miguel García wrote:
> so definitely, 32 MB/s is almost half the speed that you get. I'm in
> 2.6-test11. I don't know more options to try. The next will be booting
> with "noapic nolapic". Some people reported better results with this.
>
> by the way, I have booted with "doataraid noraid" (no drives connected,
> only SATA support in bios), and nothing is shown in the boot messages
> (nor dmesg) about libata being loaded. I don't know if I must connect a
> hard drive and then the driver shows up, but I don't think that.

Depends on a lot of things, especially what else is on that controller.
The way I found things was my involvement in the Scribus DTP project. I
upgraded to the Athlon 2600 from a Duron 900.

That took me from 30+mins from a Scribus compile to 2 mins (!) if there
is no secondary drive. When I had my old 20gb drive plugged in to do
copies off of it.. 11mins. Do you have anything else plugged in there?
Of course, I guess in that case the 8mb drive cache is helping a lot.

Craig

>
>
> Thanks!
>
> LuisMi Garcia
>
>
> Craig Bradney wrote:
>
> > On the topic of speeds.. hdparm -t gives me 56Mb/s on my Maxtor 80Mb 8mb
> > cache PATA drive. I got that with 2.4.23 pre 8 which was ATA100 and get
> > just a little more on ATA133 with 2.6. Not sure what people are
> > expecting on SATA.
> >
> > Craig
> >
> > On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 18:52, Luis Miguel García wrote:
> >
> >
> >> hello:
> >>
> >> I have a Seagate Barracuda IV (80 Gb) connected to parallel ata on a
> >> nforce-2 motherboard.
> >>
> >> If any of you want for me to test any patch to fix the "seagate
> >> issue", please, count on me. I have a SATA sis3112 and a
> >> parallel-to-serial converter. If I'm of any help to you, drop me an
> >> email.
> >>
> >> By the way, I'm only getting 32 MB/s (hdparm -tT /dev/hda) on my
> >> actual parallel ata. Is this enough for an ATA-100 device?
> >>
> >> Thanks a lot.
> >>
> >> LuisMi García
> >> Spain
> >>
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