Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (888 mails)
| < Previous | Next > |
Re: [opensuse] SATA weirdness
- From: "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:21:12 -0600
- Message-id: <4D372B98.1050702@suddenlinkmail.com>
On 01/19/2011 11:02 AM, Dave Howorth wrote:
Dave,
This sounds like a kernel issue. It may be worth subscribing for a week to get this issue out there and find out what the possible kernel causes are that could result in the different behavior you see among the different distro kernels. You can find the info for the mailing list at:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/lkml/
IT IS A HIGH VOLUME LIST. So you will want to set up a folder and filter for incoming messages. Filtering on 'From, To, Cc or Bcc' with 'kernel.org' works fine.
The only other thought I have is "Have you tried setting the jumper to limit throughput to 1.5 Gbps?" I know you said it was a 1.5 Gbps drive, but I have seen similar behavior when I have omitted the 1.5 Gpbs jumper on Seagate drives on older systems.
Good luck.
--
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
Rankin Law Firm, PLLC
510 Ochiltree Street
Nacogdoches, Texas 75961
Telephone: (936) 715-9333
Facsimile: (936) 715-9339
www.rankinlawfirm.com
--
To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxx
For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@xxxxxxxxxxxx
David Haller wrote:
I've been seen the 'CHS sector 0' on an external eSATA drive (where
the drive is simply slotted in[1]), but speed stayed up with that.
I have the reducing of the speed with un-DVDs, i.e. discs with defect
sectors, where the drive (IDE btw) needs minutes to read and "fail"
the sector.
With internal drives, I'd recommend checking / replacing the
SATA-Cables (best those with clips).
Thanks for the feedback, David. I should have mentioned that I've tried
multiple cables of different designs both for the data and the power
cable, and I've been careful to keep the connectors aligned.
Also, since all the problems seem to go away when I run Knoppix, it
seems like it may not be a hardware problem at all now! That's why I
called it weird :)
Must do more testing.
Cheers, Dave
Dave,
This sounds like a kernel issue. It may be worth subscribing for a week to get this issue out there and find out what the possible kernel causes are that could result in the different behavior you see among the different distro kernels. You can find the info for the mailing list at:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/lkml/
IT IS A HIGH VOLUME LIST. So you will want to set up a folder and filter for incoming messages. Filtering on 'From, To, Cc or Bcc' with 'kernel.org' works fine.
The only other thought I have is "Have you tried setting the jumper to limit throughput to 1.5 Gbps?" I know you said it was a 1.5 Gbps drive, but I have seen similar behavior when I have omitted the 1.5 Gpbs jumper on Seagate drives on older systems.
Good luck.
--
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
Rankin Law Firm, PLLC
510 Ochiltree Street
Nacogdoches, Texas 75961
Telephone: (936) 715-9333
Facsimile: (936) 715-9339
www.rankinlawfirm.com
--
To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxx
For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@xxxxxxxxxxxx
| < Previous | Next > |