Re: IDE performance on notebooks [was Re: swsusp performance problems in 2.6.15-rc3-mm1]

[Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>]

On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 02:56:16AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Below are data from my machine... but that should be moved to
> linux-ide or something. This thinkpad is from this summer, too, BTW.
> 
> /dev/hda:
>  Model=HTS541040G9AT00, FwRev=MB2IA5BJ, SerialNo=MPB2L0X2GLMG5M

Alas, the reason for my poor disk performance becomes clear - it's a
1.8" drive!  Gah, if I'd known that I wouldn't have bought this laptop
(though I *do* like it in other regards).

/dev/hda:

 Model=HTC426040G9AT00, FwRev=00P4A0B4, SerialNo=121611
 Config={ Fixed }
 RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4
 BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=0kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off
 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=78140160
 IORDY=yes, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
 PIO modes:  pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 
 DMA modes:  mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 
 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5 
 AdvancedPM=yes: mode=0x80 (128) WriteCache=enabled
 Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 3a: 

 * signifies the current active mode

-andy