default hdparms? readahead=256? Re: WD 400GB xATA Drives

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I've seen similar errors soon after bootup on a 400GB PATA Seagate
drive, but they have mysteriously disappeared so I haven't tracked
them down.

Have you checked if there is a difference in the hard disk parameters?
hdparm -i <drive>.

For some insane reason I haven't tracked down, drives not explicitly
set to known values may not contain "great values".  My "readahead"
value seems to boot with a value of "256" for all of my drives.

Is this not a bit "excessive"?
(

Justin Piszcz wrote:
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 -


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