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From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
To: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
Cc: Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com>, Paa Paa <paapaa125@hotmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Lower HD transfer rate with NCQ enabled?
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:11:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46151FCD.6000700@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4615160A.4090506@cfl.rr.com>

Phillip Susi wrote:
> Mark Lord wrote:
>> This is mostly a problem with the WD Raptor drive, and some other WD 
>> drives.
>> I have not yet encountered/noticed the problem with other brands.
> 
> Sounds like this is a serious bug in the WD firmware.

For personal systems, yes.  For servers, probably not a bug.

Disabling readahead means faster execution queued commands,
since it doesn't have to "linger" and do unwanted read-ahead.
So this bug is a "feature" for random access servers.
And a big nuisance for everything else.

Cheers

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-05 16:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-03  7:11 Lower HD transfer rate with NCQ enabled? Paa Paa
2007-04-03  9:18 ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-03 21:31   ` Paa Paa
2007-04-04  2:06     ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-06 21:33     ` Bill Davidsen
2007-04-03 16:31 ` Chris Snook
2007-04-03 16:47   ` Mark Lord
2007-04-03 19:17     ` Phillip Susi
2007-04-04 15:36       ` Mark Lord
2007-04-05 15:30         ` Phillip Susi
2007-04-05 16:11           ` Mark Lord [this message]
2007-04-05 16:45             ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-04-09 14:46             ` Phillip Susi
2007-04-10  3:58               ` Mark Lord
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-04-05 16:26 Paa Paa

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