From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751728AbWBMK3f (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 05:29:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751729AbWBMK3f (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 05:29:35 -0500 Received: from lucidpixels.com ([66.45.37.187]:947 "EHLO lucidpixels.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751728AbWBMK3e (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 05:29:34 -0500 Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 05:29:33 -0500 (EST) From: Justin Piszcz X-X-Sender: jpiszcz@p34 To: smartmontools-support@lists.sourceforge.net cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: WD 400GB SATA Drive In Constant Smart Testing? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org When I write to this disk for a while, I see this in dmesg (only once so far): [31230.223504] ata6: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00 [31230.223511] ata6: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } [31230.223515] ata6: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } Is there some sort of smart testing going on constantly? I only get 26-27MB/s on this 400GB/SATA/16MB/7200RPM drive. I use smartmontools to do a daily test. However, even with smart disabled, I get: # hdparm -t /dev/sde /dev/sde: Timing buffered disk reads: 78 MB in 3.06 seconds = 25.46 MB/sec Does anyone know if this drive has problems in Linux or something? [ 6.895914] Vendor: ATA Model: WDC WD4000KD-00N Rev: 01.0 It just seems to be that drive that has issues. Here is a 400GB seagate ata/100: /dev/hde: Timing buffered disk reads: 172 MB in 3.02 seconds = 56.91 MB/sec Here is a 74GB raptor SATA/150: /dev/sda: Timing buffered disk reads: 204 MB in 3.03 seconds = 67.38 MB/sec Both drives above are on the same system, so my question is what exactly is wrong with the WD drive? Is it a Linux issue, a drive issue, or? Does anyone else use this drive, what rates do they get? What is up with the error in dmesg? # smartctl -d ata -l selftest /dev/sde smartctl version 5.34 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-5 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA _of_first_error # 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 1094 - # 2 Offline Completed without error 00% 0 - # 3 Offline Completed without error 00% 0 - # 4 Offline Completed without error 00% 0 - # 5 Offline Completed without error 00% 0 - # 6 Offline Completed without error 00% 0 - # 7 Offline Completed without error 00% 0 - # 8 Offline Completed without error 00% 1 - # 9 Short offline Completed without error 00% 810 - #10 Vendor offline Completed without error 30% 65280 - #11 Offline Self-test routine in progress 150% 65535 - #12 Vendor offline Self-test routine in progress 150% 255 - #13 Vendor offline Completed without error 00% 0 - #14 Offline Completed without error 00% 0 - #15 Offline Completed without error 00% 0 - #16 Offline Completed without error 00% 0 - #17 Offline Completed without error 00% 0 - #18 Offline Completed without error 00% 0 - #19 Offline Completed without error 00% 0 - #20 Offline Completed without error 00% 0 - #21 Offline Completed without error 00% 1 -