Re: SATA problems

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John Wendel wrote:
Rohan Kulkarni wrote:


On 7/3/07, *Rohan Kulkarni* <rohan.ak1@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:rohan.ak1@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:



    On 7/2/07, *John Wendel* < john.wendel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    <mailto:john.wendel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

        Rohan Kulkarni wrote:
        >
        >
        >  On 7/2/07, *Tim* <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx
        <mailto:ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
        >  <mailto:ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx
        <mailto:ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx>>> wrote:
        >
        >     On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 19:14 +0530, Rohan Kulkarni wrote:
> > My motherboard supports hard disk speed of 150MB/s but i
        get only
        >      > 15MB/s speed
        >
        >     Have you double-checked that the figures you're reading at
        are bits per
        >     second or bytes per second?
        >
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        >  Hello,
        >            Yes I have checked with the motherboard
        specifications.It
        >  says that it supports
        >            a speed of 150MB/s.It is bytes for second.Though my
        hard disk
> supports native command queing my motherboard does not support
        it.
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        It doesn't matter what speed your motherboard (SATA controller)
        supports if the disk speed is slower. What brand/model of disk
        do you
        have? What kernel version? How are you measuring the disk speed?

        Regards,

        John



    Hello,
             I have a Seagate ST3160211AS.It is a Barracuda 160GB hard
    disk with a
             speed of 7200RPM.It supports upto 300MB/s with Native
    Command Queing.I checked the average  speed of copying by copying a
             3GB file from one FAT32 partition to another.I got a
    average speed of around
             15MB/s.I have the kernel 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7
                                                             Thanks...



Can anyone please help me...do i need to update to the latest kernel??or do i need
      to download some drivers.

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You don't really have a problem!

Don't confuse the maximum interface transfer speed (150 MB/s) with your disk transfer speed (approx 40-50 MB/s).

When you copy a file, you read the old file, and then you write the new file, rinse and repeat until done. So your transfer speed is going to be approximately 1/2 to disk speed. And now you need to add in the operating system overhead, allocating blocks for the new file, and all the seek time, moving the disk heads between the old file blocks and the new file blocks.

15 MB/s seems reasonable. On my box, using a single drive, I get a write speed of 30 MB/s for a 3 GB file and a copy speed of 14 MB/s.

Need more speed, get more disks and a raid controller.

Regards,

John


Don't forget on the Seagate drives to remove the little jumper to enable the SATA interface at 3.0Gb/s (assuming your motherboard can support it) since Seagate's default setting is with the jumper installed.

ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
ata2: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)

Jeff


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