On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 11:05:07AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 11:57:08PM -0800, H . J . Lu wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 08:34:52PM -0800, H . J . Lu wrote:
> > > I have a very strange problem. The disk I/O of my QPS M3 80GB HD is
> > > very slow under 2.4.10 and above. I got like 1.77 MB/s from hdparm.
> > > But under 2.4.9, I got 14 MB/s on the same hardware. A 30GB HD has
> > > consistent I/O performance under 2.4.9 and above on the same bus. Has
> > > anyone else seen this? Does anyone have a large (>= 80GB) 1394 HD?
> > >
> >
> > I did a binary search. 2.4.10-pre10 is the last good kernel. I got
> >
> > # hdparm -t /dev/sda
> >
> > /dev/sda:
> > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 4.40 seconds = 14.55 MB/sec
>
> Have you checked the way that your ohci and sbp2 devices are detected
> under each case? Most notably the max packet size.
>
They all say
ohci1394_0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[19] MMIO=[f8ffd000-f8ffe000] Max Packet=[1024]
ieee1394: sbp2: SBP-2 device max speed S200 and payload 1KB
H.J.
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