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3pm
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 Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 1:09 pm Post subject: slow ICH5 stata controller or HDD performance |
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Hi!
Some time ago I asked here about how to set up kernel for intel ICH5 chipset, but had no answers, somehow I managed to do it by myself, but times are changing and kernels ar changing...
A month ago I upgraded my whole system and switched to linux-2.6.16-gentoo-r3
Then I noticed a performance drop:
dd write test 32MB/S agains 44MB/S earlier for my WD 120GB SATA disk
Tried to switch to a newer kernel.
I have linux-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 kernel configured as suggested http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_SATA now.
But the same speed- 32MB/S.
While copying something from my DVD drive I notice system slowdown.
At the same time an old Seagate 40GB IDE drive in my system performs well (dd write test 44MB/S)
I tested my sata disk, cables and bios configuration, beside in windows hdtune utility shows acceptable speed - 48MB/S.
# hdparm -I /dev/sda shows
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/dev/sda:
ATA device, with non-removable media
Model Number: WDC WD1200JD-00GBB0
Serial Number: WD-WMAET1119217
Firmware Revision: 02.05D02
Standards:
Supported: 6 5 4
Likely used: 6
Configuration:
Logical max current
cylinders 16383 16383
heads 16 16
sectors/track 63 63
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CHS current addressable sectors: 16514064
LBA user addressable sectors: 234441648
LBA48 user addressable sectors: 234441648
device size with M = 1024*1024: 114473 MBytes
device size with M = 1000*1000: 120034 MBytes (120 GB)
Capabilities:
LBA, IORDY(can be disabled)
Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard, with device specific minimum
R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16 Current = 16
Recommended acoustic management value: 128, current value: 254
DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns
PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
Cycle time: no flow control=120ns IORDY flow control=120ns
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This is my dmesg ide portion
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ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH5: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
ICH5: chipset revision 2
ICH5: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: ST340016A, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 78165360 sectors (40020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes not supported
hda: hda1
ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: version 2.00ac6
ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: MAP [ P0 -- P1 -- ]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xC000 ctl 0xC402 bmdma 0xD000 irq 16
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xC800 ctl 0xCC02 bmdma 0xD008 irq 16
scsi0 : ata_piix
[b]ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0xC007[/b] what's that ?????????
scsi1 : ata_piix
ata2.00: ATA-6, max UDMA/100, 234441648 sectors: LBA48
ata2.00: ata2: dev 0 multi count 16
ata2.00: applying bridge limits
ata2.00: configured for UDMA/100
scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA WDC WD1200JD-00G 02.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
SCSI device sda: 234441648 512-byte hdwr sectors (120034 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sda: 234441648 512-byte hdwr sectors (120034 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
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widan
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| Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 4:07 pm Post subject: Re: slow ICH5 stata controller or HDD performance |
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ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xC000 ctl 0xC402 bmdma 0xD000 irq 16
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xC800 ctl 0xCC02 bmdma 0xD008 irq 16
scsi0 : ata_piix
ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0xC007
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What's that ????????? |
It means there's nothing connected on the first SATA port (your disk is on the second one). It's not related to your speed problem. |
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3pm
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| Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 5:59 pm Post subject: Re: slow ICH5 stata controller or HDD performance |
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| widan wrote: |
It means there's nothing connected on the first SATA port (your disk is on the second one). It's not related to your speed problem. |
Yes, I plugged HDD to another port for testing purposes. |
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rusxakep
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| Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 1:30 pm Post subject: |
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up. Same problem .... Please help.
ASUS P5P800 1401 bios
2.6.19-r5 |
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viperlin
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bought a SATA harddrive, J-Micron and Intel drivers, tried both ports, systems very unresponsive with this plugged in, mainly loading programs is like using a 486
and my IDE speeds were better than this....
it could be something to do with IRQ's but to be perfectly honest im not sure
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$ cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU1
0: 85 0 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 2098 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042
8: 2 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc
9: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi
12: 35638 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042
16: 49127 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ide0, uhci_hcd:usb3, nvidia
17: 25308 23377 IO-APIC-fasteoi libata, libata, libata, uhci_hcd:usb6
18: 5019 4084 IO-APIC-fasteoi eth0
19: 2 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb7
20: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb2, uhci_hcd:usb5
21: 201 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi HDA Intel
22: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb4
NMI: 0 0
LOC: 248307 248332
ERR: 0
MIS: 0
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/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads: 2422 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1210.69 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 176 MB in 3.00 seconds = 58.66 MB/sec
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as you can see from the hdparm it does not seem slow, but loading X, and anything graphical seems to be slower
also the new HDD seems MUCH louder than the previous model :S
400GB Seagate Barracuda 16Mb Cache 7200rpm (IDE/PATA)
new: 500GB Seagate Barracuda 16MB Cache 7200rpm (SATA)
older one had a buffered speed of 70+MB/s
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/dev/sda:
ATA device, with non-removable media
Model Number: ST3500641AS
Serial Number: 3PM0JDTJ
Firmware Revision: 3.AAJ
Standards:
Supported: 7 6 5 4
Likely used: 7
Configuration:
Logical max current
cylinders 16383 16383
heads 16 16
sectors/track 63 63
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CHS current addressable sectors: 16514064
LBA user addressable sectors: 268435455
LBA48 user addressable sectors: 976771055
device size with M = 1024*1024: 476938 MBytes
device size with M = 1000*1000: 500106 MBytes (500 GB)
Capabilities:
LBA, IORDY(can be disabled)
Queue depth: 32
Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard, no device specific minimum
R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16 Current = 16
Recommended acoustic management value: 254, current value: 0
DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6
Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns
PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
Cycle time: no flow control=240ns IORDY flow control=120ns
Commands/features:
Enabled Supported:
* SMART feature set
Security Mode feature set
* Power Management feature set
* Write cache
* Look-ahead
* Host Protected Area feature set
* WRITE_BUFFER command
* READ_BUFFER command
* DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE
SET_MAX security extension
* 48-bit Address feature set
* Device Configuration Overlay feature set
* Mandatory FLUSH_CACHE
* FLUSH_CACHE_EXT
* SMART error logging
* SMART self-test
* General Purpose Logging feature set
* SATA-I signaling speed (1.5Gb/s)
* SATA-II signaling speed (3.0Gb/s)
* Native Command Queueing (NCQ)
* Phy event counters
* Software settings preservation
Security:
Master password revision code = 65534
supported
not enabled
not locked
not frozen
not expired: security count
not supported: enhanced erase
Checksum: correct
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wondering if any of you found a fix anyway or would point me in the right direction (i am and will continue to keep searching!!
its allways a possiblity that copying all the files over didnt go smoothly however it seems fine, everything looked about the right size, and its a tried and tested method ive used before countless times! |
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