SATA question

Ivan Gyurdiev ivg2 at cornell.edu
Wed Feb 1 00:16:07 UTC 2006


I'm confused... is my sata drive (ata3 below) running at the proper speed?
This is a western digital SATA 2 drive. The messages below mention both  
3.0Gbps and UDMA/133, which I don't understand.

hdparm -I says udma6 is being used.
Testing my old drive, with this new SATA II one shows very similar 
performance,  near 60MB/s (via hdparm -Tt). Is this unusual? I would 
expect some kind of improvement...

This is an nforce4 chipset, A8N-SLI motherboard.
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ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x9E0 ctl 0xBE2 bmdma 0xC400 irq 225
ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x960 ctl 0xB62 bmdma 0xC408 irq 225
ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123)
ata3: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:746b 83:7f01 84:4023 85:7469 86:3e01 87:4023 
88:407f
ata3: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 390721968 sectors: LBA48
nv_sata: Primary device added
nv_sata: Primary device removed
nv_sata: Secondary device added
nv_sata: Secondary device removed
ata3: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
scsi2 : sata_nv
ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0)
scsi3 : sata_nv
  Vendor: ATA       Model: WDC WD2000JS-55M  Rev: 02.0
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
SCSI device sda: 390721968 512-byte hdwr sectors (200050 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sda: 390721968 512-byte hdwr sectors (200050 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
 sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda




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