This is a big as it’s my first post,
I have been viewing the great resources on this forum for around 2 years but now have some questions.
I have brought new life into my TR1MP but getting rid of Windows XP and installing Kububtu with fluxbox.
Since doing so the Vaio is sooooooo quick and usable it’s unblievable I have even stopped using my desktop.
Trouble is that I got a little too cocky last night by trying to demonstrate this new found usability by recording my desktop usage.
I had these running on my laptop Klibido(binary newsgroup downloader/decoder - 5 threads), par2repair was repairing an archive, I was also unziping a 700Meg rar file, firefox with 20 tabs, thunderbird checking Gig size mailboxes and also kicked off a software install via adept, recording the desktop with istanbul.
WOW Thats a hella lot of load for the vaio. Everthing was going fine - load was upto 8 with very heavy disk IO but I was still able to use the vaio comfortably until BANG.
The kernel panicked due to the heavy disk IO and remounted the disk in RO.
Now looking at the disk in detail it doesn’t have any cache ? This doesn’t seem right to me : Toshiba says that it has maybe 512K…. In anycase I think maybe a hard disk upgrade is in order.
Can someone verify the cache size of the TOSHIBA MK3004GAH ?
Or maybe I need to set up some more hrparm parameters to more effectively use this hard drive ?
hdparm -i /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Model=TOSHIBA MK3004GAH, FwRev=JB001C, SerialNo=73I43457T
Config={ Fixed }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=46
BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=0kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=58595040
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: sdma0 sdma1 sdma2 mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
AdvancedPM=yes: unknown setting WriteCache=enabled
Drive conforms to: Unspecified: ATA/ATAPI-1 ATA/ATAPI-2 ATA/ATAPI-3 ATA/ATAPI-4 ATA/ATAPI-5
* signifies the current active mode
dparm /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
multcount = 0 (off)
IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit)
unmaskirq = 0 (off)
using_dma = 1 (on)
keepsettings = 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 256 (on)
geometry = 58130/16/63, sectors = 58595040, start = 0
