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I have no idea whats the problem but in linux the hdd is really slow...
when i type something in firefox3's adress bar it takes up to 1 minute until it let's me display something, pacman is even worse sometimes searching sometimes takes up to 2 minutes and i hear the hdd working pretty hard like it's gonna die any second (and it's only 1 year old hdd)
coping files is also very slow
few tests show normal but everything that hdd related making it work very hard and i hear it very loud and just can't do anything else while the "job" is being done.
hdparm -tT /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads: 2604 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1302.06 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 192 MB in 3.01 seconds = 63.74 MB/secthis shows normal (i think?) but except this little test everything else is quite slow.
/dev/sda:
setting using_dma to 1 (on)
HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
HDIO_GET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for devicehdparm -i /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
Model=Maxtor 6V200E0 , FwRev=VA111680, SerialNo=V400B9QG
Config={ Fixed }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4
BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=8192kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=?16?
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=398294975
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,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 *udma6
AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) WriteCache=enabled
Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-7 T13 1532D revision 0: ATA/ATAPI-1,2,3,4,5,6,7
* signifies the current active modedmesg |grep DMA
DMA 0 -> 4096
DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0
ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x8000 ctl 0x8400 bmdma 0x9000 irq 16
ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x8800 ctl 0x8c00 bmdma 0x9008 irq 16
ata1.00: ATAPI: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H10L, LL10, max UDMA/33
ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33
ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m8192@0xf9000000 port 0xf9000100 irq 19
ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m8192@0xf9000000 port 0xf9000180 irq 19
ata5: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0xf000 irq 14
ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xf008 irq 15
ata5.00: ATA-7: Maxtor 6V200E0, VA111680, max UDMA/133
ata5.00: configured for UDMA/133
ata7: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xd800 ctl 0xdc00 bmdma 0xe800 irq 19
ata8: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xe000 ctl 0xe400 bmdma 0xe808 irq 19Offline
The common problem with hdd speed is disabled DMA but from your hdparm output I see it is enabled.
You may try running:
smartctl -a /dev/sdaand analyze its output.
Do you use dual-boot with Windows and have similar problem on Windows?
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=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Maxtor DiamondMax 10 family (SATA/300)
Device Model: Maxtor 6V200E0
Serial Number: V400B9QG
Firmware Version: VA111680
User Capacity: 203,927,027,200 bytes
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: 7
ATA Standard is: ATA/ATAPI-7 T13 1532D revision 0
Local Time is: Sun Oct 12 15:19:06 2008 PDT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Disabled
SMART Disabled. Use option -s with argument 'on' to enable it.whats smart support?
and yes i have windows and i don't have problems with it.
Last edited by pwntigo (2008-10-12 13:20:16)
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SMART gathers information on how your disk is performing (e.g. various error rates and counts). And you should enable it unless you have any reason not to do so. As I remember it can be done in BIOS.
But since you don't have these problems on Windows you can surely exclude hardware failure.
Last edited by robertp (2008-10-12 14:35:06)
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