[ltp] Hard drive constantly spinning down

Bernard Tremblay linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 18 Oct 2005 21:38:48 -0400


Alejandro Bonilla a écrit :

>On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:09:46 +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote
>  
>
>>On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 11:08:11PM -0700, Bill Sheppard wrote:
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>>>I just replaced the standard 40GB drive in my T42 with a Toshiba 60GB
>>>drive.  Upon booting it appears the drive is spinning down after only a
>>>few seconds, as almost every command I type is followed by a slight
>>>delay, and then I hear the drive spin up.  I've tried "hdparm -B 255
>>>/dev/hda" to turn off APM on the drive, but this doesn't seem to help. 
>>>I also think the drive may be operating far slower than it should - I
>>>tried a "hdparm -t /dev/hda" and only got about 30MB/sec.  If I'm not
>>>mistaken the old drive got over 100MB/sec, and this drive in it's
>>>previous laptop (Toshiba Tecra S1) got around 100MB/sec as well.
>>>      
>>>
>>I'm not sure but 100MB/s seems a lot. I own a 60GB 7200 RPM disk and 
>>it gives me 36MB/s for buffered reads and 1147MB/s for cached reads
>>
>>Could other people post their result too ?
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>
>Maybe this is laptop-mode fault?
>abonilla@debian:~$ sudo hdparm -I /dev/hda
>
>/dev/hda:
>
>ATA device, with non-removable media
>        Model Number:       FUJITSU MHT2040AH
>        Serial Number:      NP0JT512L999
>        Firmware Revision:  846C
>Standards:
>        Used: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 3a
>        Supported: 6 5 4 3
>Configuration:
>        Logical         max     current
>        cylinders       16383   16383
>        heads           16      16
>        sectors/track   63      63
>        --
>        CHS current addressable sectors:   16514064
>        LBA    user addressable sectors:   78140160
>        device size with M = 1024*1024:       38154 MBytes
>        device size with M = 1000*1000:       40007 MBytes (40 GB)
>Capabilities:
>        LBA, IORDY(cannot be disabled)
>        bytes avail on r/w long: 4      Queue depth: 1
>        Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard, no device specific minimum
>        R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16  Current = ?
>        Advanced power management level: 128 (0x80)
>        Recommended acoustic management value: 254, current value: 254
>        DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
>             Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns
>        PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
>             Cycle time: no flow control=240ns  IORDY flow control=120ns
>Commands/features:
>        Enabled Supported:
>           *    READ BUFFER cmd
>           *    WRITE BUFFER cmd
>           *    Host Protected Area feature set
>           *    Look-ahead
>           *    Write cache
>           *    Power Management feature set
>                Security Mode feature set
>           *    SMART feature set
>           *    Mandatory FLUSH CACHE command
>           *    Device Configuration Overlay feature set
>           *    Automatic Acoustic Management feature set
>                SET MAX security extension
>                Power-Up In Standby feature set
>           *    Advanced Power Management feature set
>           *    DOWNLOAD MICROCODE cmd
>           *    SMART self-test
>           *    SMART error logging
>Security:
>        Master password revision code = 65534
>                supported
>        not     enabled
>        not     locked
>                frozen
>        not     expired: security count
>        not     supported: enhanced erase
>        40min for SECURITY ERASE UNIT.
>HW reset results:
>        CBLID- above Vih
>        Device num = 0 determined by the jumper
>Checksum: correct
>
>
> .Alejandro
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I have the following result on my TP A21P 2629-HSF with Ubuntu Breezy
vanilla :

bernard@m90252x:~$ sudo hdparm -I -t -T /dev/hda

/dev/hda:

ATA device, with non-removable media
        Model Number:       FUJITSU MHT2040AT
        Serial Number:      NQ08T4827HRW
        Firmware Revision:  0022
Standards:
        Used: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 3a
        Supported: 6 5 4 3
Configuration:
        Logical         max     current
        cylinders       16383   16383
        heads           16      16
        sectors/track   63      63
        --
        CHS current addressable sectors:   16514064
        LBA    user addressable sectors:   78140160
        device size with M = 1024*1024:       38154 MBytes
        device size with M = 1000*1000:       40007 MBytes (40 GB)
Capabilities:
        LBA, IORDY(cannot be disabled)
        bytes avail on r/w long: 4      Queue depth: 1
        Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard, no device specific minimum
        R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16  Current = ?
        Advanced power management level: 159 (0x9f)
        Recommended acoustic management value: 254, current value: 254
        DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 *udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5
             Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns
        PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
             Cycle time: no flow control=240ns  IORDY flow control=120ns
Commands/features:
        Enabled Supported:
           *    READ BUFFER cmd
           *    WRITE BUFFER cmd
           *    Host Protected Area feature set
           *    Look-ahead
           *    Write cache
           *    Power Management feature set
                Security Mode feature set
                SMART feature set
           *    Mandatory FLUSH CACHE command
           *    Device Configuration Overlay feature set
           *    Automatic Acoustic Management feature set
                SET MAX security extension
                Power-Up In Standby feature set
           *    Advanced Power Management feature set
           *    DOWNLOAD MICROCODE cmd
           *    SMART self-test
           *    SMART error logging
Security:
        Master password revision code = 65534
                supported
        not     enabled
        not     locked
                frozen
        not     expired: security count
        not     supported: enhanced erase
        40min for SECURITY ERASE UNIT.
HW reset results:
        CBLID- above Vih
        Device num = 0 determined by the jumper
Checksum: correct
 Timing cached reads:   600 MB in  2.00 seconds = 299.30 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:   62 MB in  3.03 seconds =  20.47 MB/sec


Your figures are better than mine, but I haven't played with hdparm to
tune the disk yet.  Don't  confuse the cached reads and the disk reads
rates!


Regards,
                BT