Re: libata: dma, io error messages

[Paul Jakma]

On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Mark Lord wrote:

> > > Also, the drive is extremely slow now, about 1MB/s drive transfer rate 
> > > as reported by hdparm -T.

> That should read "hdparm -t", not "-T", right?

erk, sorry, yes.

> And the slowness is most likely due to the error recovery (retries) 
> in the drive and/or driver, which cause the overall throughput to 
> plummet for the measurement interval.

ah. There are no reported errors though. So presumably drive retries 
that end up being successful.

If that is so then this suggests the drive has a far more serious 
problem than just a single bad block, right?

> Cheers

regards,
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