[PlanetCCRMA] sata disk performance

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 00:26 -0400, Joe Miklojcik wrote:
> I'm trying to run Planet CCRMA FC4 on a new dell precision m70 laptop. I
> think the hard disk is slow, and hdparm isn't helping. 

Why do you think it is slow? Have you tried to benchmark it? (hdparm has
some very basic benchmarking stuff in it). 

-- Fernando

> Here is some
> command output. Any help would be a wonder.
> 
> bash> sudo hdparm /dev/sda
> 
> /dev/sda:
>  IO_support   =  0 (default 16-bit)
>  readonly     =  0 (off)
>  readahead    = 256 (on)
>  geometry     = 9729/255/63, sectors = 80026361856, start = 0
> (Mon Sep 19 00:22:22)
> bash> sudo hdparm -c 3 /dev/sda
> 
> /dev/sda:
>  setting 32-bit IO_support flag to 3
>  HDIO_SET_32BIT failed: Invalid argument
>  IO_support   =  0 (default 16-bit)
> (Mon Sep 19 00:23:04)
> 
> 
> lspci -vv edited down to the controller:
> 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA
> Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 80 [Master])
>         Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 0187
>         Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
> ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>         Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>         Latency: 0
>         Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 7
>         Region 0: I/O ports at <ignored>
>         Region 1: I/O ports at <ignored>
>         Region 2: I/O ports at <ignored>
>         Region 3: I/O ports at <ignored>
>         Region 4: I/O ports at bfa0 [size=16]
>         Capabilities: <available only to root>