Re: Silicon Image 3112A SATA trouble

[Craig Bradney <cbradney@zip.com.au>]

On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 19:41, Luis Miguel García wrote:
> so definitely, 32 MB/s is almost half the speed that you get. I'm in 
> 2.6-test11. I don't know more options to try. The next will be booting 
> with "noapic nolapic". Some people reported better results with this.
> 
> by the way, I have booted with "doataraid noraid" (no drives connected, 
> only SATA support in bios), and nothing is shown in the boot messages 
> (nor dmesg) about libata being loaded. I don't know if I must connect a 
> hard drive and then the driver shows up, but I don't think that.

Depends on a lot of things, especially what else is on that controller.
The way I found things was my involvement in the Scribus DTP project. I
upgraded to the Athlon 2600 from a Duron 900. 

That took me from 30+mins from a Scribus compile to 2 mins (!) if there
is no secondary drive. When I had my old 20gb drive plugged in to do
copies off of it.. 11mins. Do you have anything else plugged in there?
Of course, I guess in that case the 8mb drive cache is helping a lot.

Craig


> 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> LuisMi Garcia
> 
> 
> Craig Bradney wrote:
> 
> > On the topic of speeds.. hdparm -t gives me 56Mb/s on my Maxtor 80Mb 8mb
> > cache PATA drive. I got that with 2.4.23 pre 8 which was ATA100 and get
> > just a little more on ATA133 with 2.6. Not sure what people are
> > expecting on SATA.
> >
> > Craig
> >
> > On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 18:52, Luis Miguel García wrote:
> >  
> >
> >> hello:
> >>
> >> I have a Seagate Barracuda IV (80 Gb) connected to parallel ata on a 
> >> nforce-2 motherboard.
> >>
> >> If any of you want for me to test any patch to fix the "seagate 
> >> issue", please, count on me. I have a SATA sis3112 and a 
> >> parallel-to-serial converter. If I'm of any help to you, drop me an 
> >> email.
> >>
> >> By the way, I'm only getting 32 MB/s   (hdparm -tT /dev/hda) on my 
> >> actual parallel ata. Is this enough for an ATA-100 device?
> >>
> >> Thanks a lot.
> >>
> >> LuisMi García
> >> Spain
> >>
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