Slow Hard Drive?
Srikanth Konjarla
srikanth.konjarla at gmail.com
Sat Apr 7 03:33:32 UTC 2007
All,
I am running FC6 (with latest update, 64-bit) on AMD Dual Core with 1GB
RAM. It contains a SATA hard disk. I am experience sluggishness when
files are opened or closed (saved). I suspect that i have slow SATA
performance even though i am not sure. I have following stats.
# hdparm -Tt /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads: 2452 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1226.48 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 86 MB in 3.03 seconds = 28.35 MB/sec
I am concerned about 28.35 MB/Sec speed here.
# hdparm -i /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
# dmesg | grep -i sata
sata_nv 0000:00:0e.0: version 3.2
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE800 ctl 0xE482 bmdma 0xE000 irq 21
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE400 ctl 0xE082 bmdma 0xE008 irq 21
scsi0 : sata_nv
ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
scsi1 : sata_nv
ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
# lsmod | grep -i sata
sata_nv 29509 4
libata 120553 1 sata_nv
Kernel Boot Parameter
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2933.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/1 noquiet
combined_mode=libata
Any suggestions/recommendations/comments are welcome.
Thanks
Srikanth
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