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On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 01:37:25PM -0400, Jonathan Kay wrote:
> Hello again,
>   I'm seeing some rampant slowness with a secondary drive on an ATI/AMD
> (IXP IDE) based motherboard.  There are two sata drives attached to it,
> and the primary one reads & writes fast, but the secondary one refuses
> to write any faster than 7MB/s.  It does however, read really fast.
> (Again, this is a dedicated hosting machine, so some of my testing
> abilities are limited..)
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> from the dmesg, I see that it reports:
> wd1: quirks 2<FORCE_LBA48>
> but don't see anything else to indicate a problem.
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> Any ideas?  Is it possibly just a bad harddrive & I should try to get
> it replaced?
> Thank you again!
> Jonathan
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> here are some excerpts from my dmesg that are relevant to the situ:
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> ixpide0 at pci0 dev 18 function 0
> ixpide0: ATI Technologies IXP IDE Controller (rev. 0x00)
> ixpide0: bus-master DMA support present
> ixpide0: primary channel configured to native-PCI mode
> ixpide0: using irq 5 for native-PCI interrupt
> atabus0 at ixpide0 channel 0
> ixpide0: secondary channel configured to native-PCI mode
> atabus1 at ixpide0 channel 1
> atabus2 at ixpide1 channel 0
> atabus3 at ixpide1 channel 1
> wd0 at atabus0 drive 0: <WDC WD2000JS-00MHB0>
> wd0: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA48 addressing
> wd0: 186 GB, 387621 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 390721968 sect=
ors
> wd0: 32-bit data port
> wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 6 (Ultra/133)
> wd0(ixpide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 6 (Ultra/133) (using D=
MA)
> wd1 at atabus1 drive 0: <ST3250620NS>
> wd1: quirks 2<FORCE_LBA48>
> wd1: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA48 addressing
> wd1: 232 GB, 484521 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 488397168 sect=
ors
> wd1: 32-bit data port
> wd1: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 6 (Ultra/133)
> wd1(ixpide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 6 (Ultra/133) (using D=
MA)

What does atactl wd1 identify have to say about the driver?

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