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Thanks to everyone for helping with this.
The problem does seem to be rooted with my HighPoint 133SB IDE card and it not being supported properly by the 2.6.29.1 kernel. My solution was an IDE to SATA converter as suggested by tux99. It was totally transparent and I didn't even have to edit the fstab file.
Now I've got USB issues but that's another matter ...
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The motherboard is a Gigabyte P45T-DS3R with an Intel 3GHz Core 3 Duo processor but I had to install an IDE controller card for this ATA drive. It is a HighPoint Rocket 133SB 32bits, 33/66 MHz PCI IDE Controller Card. I don't know what the controller chip is but I bought this card especially because it supported Linux right out of the box. Didn't need to install any drivers or anything.
Now this was interesting. The transfer rate is 1000x slower for the ATA drive (/dev/sdb) compared to the SATA drive (/dev/sda). Wow! It certainly does look like some sort of controller issue like pmpatrick is suspecting.
[root@beeker darrell]# hdparm -t /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: Timing buffered disk reads: 2 MB in 26.91 seconds = 76.10 kB/sec /dev/sda: Timing buffered disk reads: 270 MB in 3.01 seconds = 89.83 MB/sec
Here are some of the other outputs that are apparently useful to you experts:
[root@beeker darrell]# lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset DRAM Controller (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port (rev 02) 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 1 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 4 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 5 00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 6 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 90) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JIR (ICH10R) LPC Interface Controller 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 4 port SATA IDE Controller 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SMBus Controller 00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 9800 GTX (rev a2) 03:00.0 IDE interface: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMB368 IDE controller 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02) 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02) 06:00.0 RAID bus controller: HighPoint Technologies, Inc. HPT302/302N (rev 02) 06:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
And this has a bunch of I/O errors. Perhaps causing the very slow transfer rate?
[root@beeker darrell]# zgrep sdb /var/log/messages* /var/log/messages:May 3 16:23:11 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] 625142448 512-byte hardware sectors: (320 GB/298 GiB) /var/log/messages:May 3 16:23:11 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off /var/log/messages:May 3 16:23:11 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA /var/log/messages:May 3 16:23:11 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] 625142448 512-byte hardware sectors: (320 GB/298 GiB) /var/log/messages:May 3 16:23:11 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off /var/log/messages:May 3 16:23:11 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA /var/log/messages:May 3 16:23:11 beeker klogd: sdb: sdb1 sdb2 < sdb5 sdb6 > /var/log/messages:May 3 16:23:11 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk /var/log/messages:May 3 16:23:11 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE,SUGGEST_OK /var/log/messages:May 3 16:23:11 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Sense Key : Aborted Command [current] [descriptor] /var/log/messages:May 3 16:23:11 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Add. Sense: Scsi parity error /var/log/messages:May 3 16:23:11 beeker klogd: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 469795071 /var/log/messages:May 3 16:23:11 beeker klogd: Buffer I/O error on device sdb6, logical block 77203464 /var/log/messages:May 3 16:23:11 beeker klogd: lost page write due to I/O error on sdb6 /var/log/messages:May 3 16:23:11 beeker klogd: Buffer I/O error on device sdb6, logical block 77203465 /var/log/messages:May 3 16:23:11 beeker klogd: lost page write due to I/O error on sdb6 /var/log/messages:May 3 16:23:11 beeker klogd: Buffer I/O error on device sdb6, logical block 77203466 /var/log/messages:May 3 16:23:11 beeker klogd: lost page write due to I/O error on sdb6 /var/log/messages:May 3 16:23:11 beeker klogd: Buffer I/O error on device sdb6, logical block 77203467 /var/log/messages:May 3 16:23:11 beeker klogd: lost page write due to I/O error on sdb6 /var/log/messages:May 3 16:23:11 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] 625142448 512-byte hardware sectors: (320 GB/298 GiB) /var/log/messages:May 3 16:23:11 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off /var/log/messages:May 3 16:23:11 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA /var/log/messages:May 3 16:23:11 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] 625142448 512-byte hardware sectors: (320 GB/298 GiB) /var/log/messages:May 3 16:23:11 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off /var/log/messages:May 3 16:23:11 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA /var/log/messages:May 3 16:23:11 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] 625142448 512-byte hardware sectors: (320 GB/298 GiB) /var/log/messages:May 3 16:23:11 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off /var/log/messages:May 3 16:23:11 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA /var/log/messages:May 3 16:23:11 beeker klogd: EXT3 FS on sdb6, internal journal /var/log/messages:May 3 16:23:11 beeker klogd: Adding 4088500k swap on /dev/sdb1. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:4088500k /var/log/messages:May 3 16:47:20 beeker hald: mounted /dev/sdb5 on behalf of uid 500 /var/log/messages:May 3 16:47:20 beeker klogd: EXT3 FS on sdb5, internal journal /var/log/messages:May 3 17:29:54 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] 625142448 512-byte hardware sectors: (320 GB/298 GiB) /var/log/messages:May 3 17:29:54 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off /var/log/messages:May 3 17:29:54 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA /var/log/messages:May 3 17:29:54 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] 625142448 512-byte hardware sectors: (320 GB/298 GiB) /var/log/messages:May 3 17:29:54 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off /var/log/messages:May 3 17:29:54 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA /var/log/messages:May 3 17:29:54 beeker klogd: sdb: sdb1 sdb2 < sdb5 sdb6 > /var/log/messages:May 3 17:29:54 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk /var/log/messages:May 3 17:29:54 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE,SUGGEST_OK /var/log/messages:May 3 17:29:54 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Sense Key : Aborted Command [current] [descriptor] /var/log/messages:May 3 17:29:54 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Add. Sense: Scsi parity error /var/log/messages:May 3 17:29:54 beeker klogd: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 469795071 /var/log/messages:May 3 17:29:54 beeker klogd: Buffer I/O error on device sdb6, logical block 77203464 /var/log/messages:May 3 17:29:54 beeker klogd: lost page write due to I/O error on sdb6 /var/log/messages:May 3 17:29:54 beeker klogd: Buffer I/O error on device sdb6, logical block 77203465 /var/log/messages:May 3 17:29:54 beeker klogd: lost page write due to I/O error on sdb6 /var/log/messages:May 3 17:29:54 beeker klogd: Buffer I/O error on device sdb6, logical block 77203466 /var/log/messages:May 3 17:29:54 beeker klogd: lost page write due to I/O error on sdb6 /var/log/messages:May 3 17:29:54 beeker klogd: Buffer I/O error on device sdb6, logical block 77203467 /var/log/messages:May 3 17:29:54 beeker klogd: lost page write due to I/O error on sdb6 /var/log/messages:May 3 17:29:54 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] 625142448 512-byte hardware sectors: (320 GB/298 GiB) /var/log/messages:May 3 17:29:54 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off /var/log/messages:May 3 17:29:54 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA /var/log/messages:May 3 17:29:54 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] 625142448 512-byte hardware sectors: (320 GB/298 GiB) /var/log/messages:May 3 17:29:54 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off /var/log/messages:May 3 17:29:54 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA /var/log/messages:May 3 17:29:54 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] 625142448 512-byte hardware sectors: (320 GB/298 GiB) /var/log/messages:May 3 17:29:54 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off /var/log/messages:May 3 17:29:54 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA /var/log/messages:May 3 17:29:54 beeker klogd: EXT3 FS on sdb6, internal journal /var/log/messages:May 3 17:29:54 beeker klogd: Adding 4088500k swap on /dev/sdb1. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:4088500k /var/log/messages:May 3 17:30:37 beeker hald: mounted /dev/sdb5 on behalf of uid 500 /var/log/messages:May 3 17:30:37 beeker klogd: EXT3 FS on sdb5, internal journal /var/log/messages:May 3 17:38:31 beeker hald: unmounted /dev/sdb5 from '/media/disk' on behalf of uid 500 /var/log/messages:May 3 12:49:00 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] 625142448 512-byte hardware sectors (320073 MB) /var/log/messages:May 3 12:49:00 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off /var/log/messages:May 3 12:49:00 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA /var/log/messages:May 3 12:49:00 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] 625142448 512-byte hardware sectors (320073 MB) /var/log/messages:May 3 12:49:00 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off /var/log/messages:May 3 12:49:00 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA /var/log/messages:May 3 12:49:00 beeker klogd: sdb: sdb1 sdb2 < sdb5 sdb6 > /var/log/messages:May 3 12:49:00 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk /var/log/messages:May 3 12:49:00 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE,SUGGEST_OK /var/log/messages:May 3 12:49:00 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Sense Key : Aborted Command [current] [descriptor] /var/log/messages:May 3 12:49:00 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Add. Sense: Scsi parity error /var/log/messages:May 3 12:49:00 beeker klogd: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 469795071 /var/log/messages:May 3 12:49:00 beeker klogd: Buffer I/O error on device sdb6, logical block 77203464 /var/log/messages:May 3 12:49:00 beeker klogd: lost page write due to I/O error on sdb6 /var/log/messages:May 3 12:49:00 beeker klogd: Buffer I/O error on device sdb6, logical block 77203465 /var/log/messages:May 3 12:49:00 beeker klogd: lost page write due to I/O error on sdb6 /var/log/messages:May 3 12:49:00 beeker klogd: Buffer I/O error on device sdb6, logical block 77203466 /var/log/messages:May 3 12:49:00 beeker klogd: lost page write due to I/O error on sdb6 /var/log/messages:May 3 12:49:00 beeker klogd: Buffer I/O error on device sdb6, logical block 77203467 /var/log/messages:May 3 12:49:00 beeker klogd: lost page write due to I/O error on sdb6 /var/log/messages:May 3 12:49:00 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] 625142448 512-byte hardware sectors (320073 MB) /var/log/messages:May 3 12:49:00 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off /var/log/messages:May 3 12:49:00 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA /var/log/messages:May 3 12:49:00 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] 625142448 512-byte hardware sectors (320073 MB) /var/log/messages:May 3 12:49:00 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off /var/log/messages:May 3 12:49:00 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA /var/log/messages:May 3 12:49:00 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] 625142448 512-byte hardware sectors (320073 MB) /var/log/messages:May 3 12:49:00 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off /var/log/messages:May 3 12:49:00 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA /var/log/messages:May 3 12:49:00 beeker klogd: EXT3 FS on sdb6, internal journal /var/log/messages:May 3 12:49:00 beeker klogd: Adding 4088500k swap on /dev/sdb1. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:4088500k /var/log/messages:May 3 17:51:01 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] 625142448 512-byte hardware sectors: (320 GB/298 GiB) /var/log/messages:May 3 17:51:01 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off /var/log/messages:May 3 17:51:01 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA /var/log/messages:May 3 17:51:01 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] 625142448 512-byte hardware sectors: (320 GB/298 GiB) /var/log/messages:May 3 17:51:01 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off /var/log/messages:May 3 17:51:01 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA /var/log/messages:May 3 17:51:01 beeker klogd: sdb: sdb1 sdb2 < sdb5 sdb6 > /var/log/messages:May 3 17:51:01 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk /var/log/messages:May 3 17:51:01 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE,SUGGEST_OK /var/log/messages:May 3 17:51:01 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Sense Key : Aborted Command [current] [descriptor] /var/log/messages:May 3 17:51:01 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Add. Sense: Scsi parity error /var/log/messages:May 3 17:51:01 beeker klogd: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 469795071 /var/log/messages:May 3 17:51:01 beeker klogd: Buffer I/O error on device sdb6, logical block 77203464 /var/log/messages:May 3 17:51:01 beeker klogd: lost page write due to I/O error on sdb6 /var/log/messages:May 3 17:51:01 beeker klogd: Buffer I/O error on device sdb6, logical block 77203465 /var/log/messages:May 3 17:51:01 beeker klogd: lost page write due to I/O error on sdb6 /var/log/messages:May 3 17:51:01 beeker klogd: Buffer I/O error on device sdb6, logical block 77203466 /var/log/messages:May 3 17:51:01 beeker klogd: lost page write due to I/O error on sdb6 /var/log/messages:May 3 17:51:01 beeker klogd: Buffer I/O error on device sdb6, logical block 77203467 /var/log/messages:May 3 17:51:01 beeker klogd: lost page write due to I/O error on sdb6 /var/log/messages:May 3 17:51:01 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] 625142448 512-byte hardware sectors: (320 GB/298 GiB) /var/log/messages:May 3 17:51:01 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off /var/log/messages:May 3 17:51:01 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA /var/log/messages:May 3 17:51:01 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] 625142448 512-byte hardware sectors: (320 GB/298 GiB) /var/log/messages:May 3 17:51:01 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off /var/log/messages:May 3 17:51:01 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA /var/log/messages:May 3 17:51:01 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] 625142448 512-byte hardware sectors: (320 GB/298 GiB) /var/log/messages:May 3 17:51:01 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off /var/log/messages:May 3 17:51:01 beeker klogd: sd 5:0:1:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA /var/log/messages:May 3 17:51:01 beeker klogd: EXT3 FS on sdb6, internal journal /var/log/messages:May 3 17:51:01 beeker klogd: Adding 4088500k swap on /dev/sdb1. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:4088500k /var/log/messages:May 3 17:57:28 beeker klogd: EXT3 FS on sdb5, internal journal /var/log/messages:May 3 17:57:28 beeker hald: mounted /dev/sdb5 on behalf of uid 500 /var/log/messages:May 3 22:40:15 beeker harddrake2[25398]: HDIO_GETGEO on /dev/sdb succeeded: heads=255 sectors=63 cylinders=38913 start=4294967295 /var/log/messages:May 3 22:40:15 beeker harddrake2[25398]: id2hd: 0x00059782=>sdb 0x00084815=>sda /var/log/messages:May 3 22:40:15 beeker harddrake2[25398]: geometry_from_edd sdb 0x00059782: 38913/255/63 /var/log/messages:May 3 22:40:16 beeker harddrake2[25398]: test_for_bad_drives(/dev/sdb on sector #62) /var/log/messages:May 3 22:42:00 beeker harddrake2[25398]: running: vol_id /dev/sdb /var/log/messages:May 3 22:42:00 beeker harddrake2[25398]: running: vol_id /dev/sdb /var/log/messages:May 3 22:42:00 beeker harddrake2[25398]: found a dos partition table on /dev/sdb at sector 0 /var/log/messages:May 3 22:42:00 beeker harddrake2[25398]: guess_geometry_from_partition_table sdb: 38913/255/63 /var/log/messages:May 3 22:42:00 beeker harddrake2[25398]: running: vol_id /dev/sdb1 /var/log/messages:May 3 22:42:00 beeker harddrake2[25398]: running: vol_id /dev/sdb5 /var/log/messages:May 3 22:42:02 beeker harddrake2[25398]: running: vol_id /dev/sdb6 /var/log/messages.1.gz:May 2 11:17:02 beeker kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 3999743 512-byte hardware sectors (2048 MB) /var/log/messages.1.gz:May 2 11:17:02 beeker kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off /var/log/messages.1.gz:May 2 11:17:02 beeker kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through /var/log/messages.1.gz:May 2 11:17:02 beeker kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 3999743 512-byte hardware sectors (2048 MB) /var/log/messages.1.gz:May 2 11:17:02 beeker kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off /var/log/messages.1.gz:May 2 11:17:02 beeker kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through /var/log/messages.1.gz:May 2 11:17:02 beeker kernel: sdb: sdb1 sdb2 /var/log/messages.1.gz:May 2 11:17:02 beeker kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk /var/log/messages.1.gz:May 2 11:17:02 beeker hald: mounted /dev/sdb2 on behalf of uid 500 /var/log/messages.1.gz:May 2 11:25:08 beeker hald: unmounted /dev/sdb2 from '/media/DARRELL BAR' on behalf of uid 500
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After more playing, it would appear that some sort of file marking or cataloging might be happening here. Maybe some new level of security went into place???
Yesterday, it took several hours to launch X-plane. Today, I tried again and this time it went as normal. My theory here is that the files got "marked" the last time so don't have to undergo that process again. To corroborate this I selected a new airplane that hadn't been loaded yet. As expected, it took a long time but eventually launched and ran fine. Exiting and then restarting it then ran OK presumably because it had been marked now. Picking yet another aircraft that hadn't been used, once again it took a long time to launch but then ran normally.
So ... it really looks like when a file is accessed for the first time, it gets marked or checked or something that takes a long time (relatively speaking). Maybe this is expected behavior? If so, I hope there is some way to force the process to run on the entire drive (now) so that it doesn't have to be run again.
Does any of this make sense???
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[darrell@beeker ~]$ [b]cat /proc/interrupts[/b] CPU0 CPU1 0: 384 148 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 5558 5562 IO-APIC-edge i8042 4: 1 1 IO-APIC-edge 6: 2 3 IO-APIC-edge floppy 7: 0 0 IO-APIC-edge parport0 8: 0 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc0 9: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi 14: 123634 123968 IO-APIC-edge ata_piix 15: 0 0 IO-APIC-edge ata_piix 16: 280023 279535 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb3, nvidia 18: 118705 118930 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb5, uhci_hcd:usb8 19: 188003 187985 IO-APIC-fasteoi ata_piix, pata_jmicron, uhci_hcd:usb7 20: 100015 99986 IO-APIC-fasteoi pata_hpt3x2n 21: 187010 187504 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb4 22: 98047 97885 IO-APIC-fasteoi HDA Intel 23: 35 26 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci1394, ehci_hcd:usb2, uhci_hcd:usb6 29: 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge eth0 30: 217866 217530 PCI-MSI-edge eth1 NMI: 0 0 Non-maskable interrupts LOC: 9082670 9835517 Local timer interrupts RES: 973769 908292 Rescheduling interrupts CAL: 48243 36448 Function call interrupts TLB: 86167 84765 TLB shootdowns TRM: 0 0 Thermal event interrupts THR: 0 0 Threshold APIC interrupts SPU: 0 0 Spurious interrupts ERR: 0 MIS: 0 [root@beeker ~]$ [b]grep sd /var/log/messages|grep kernel[/b] May 3 14:26:35 beeker kernel: Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods May 3 14:26:35 beeker kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 976771055 512-byte hardware sectors (500107 MB) May 3 14:26:35 beeker kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off May 3 14:26:35 beeker kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA May 3 14:26:35 beeker kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 976771055 512-byte hardware sectors (500107 MB) May 3 14:26:35 beeker kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off May 3 14:26:35 beeker kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA May 3 14:26:35 beeker kernel: sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 > May 3 14:26:35 beeker kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk May 3 14:26:35 beeker kernel: EXT3-fs: sda1: orphan cleanup on readonly fs May 3 14:26:35 beeker kernel: EXT3-fs: sda1: 1 orphan inode deleted May 3 14:26:35 beeker kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 May 3 14:26:35 beeker kernel: EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal May 3 14:26:35 beeker kernel: EXT3 FS on sda6, internal journal May 3 14:26:35 beeker kernel: Adding 10233364k swap on /dev/sda5. Priority:-2 extents:1 across:10233364k May 3 14:26:46 beeker kernel: Installing knfsd (copyright © 1996 okir@monad.swb.de). May 3 14:39:39 beeker kernel: Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods May 3 14:39:39 beeker kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 976771055 512-byte hardware sectors (500107 MB) May 3 14:39:39 beeker kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off May 3 14:39:39 beeker kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA May 3 14:39:39 beeker kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 976771055 512-byte hardware sectors (500107 MB) May 3 14:39:39 beeker kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off May 3 14:39:39 beeker kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA May 3 14:39:39 beeker kernel: sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 > May 3 14:39:39 beeker kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk May 3 14:39:39 beeker kernel: EXT3-fs: sda1: orphan cleanup on readonly fs May 3 14:39:39 beeker kernel: EXT3-fs: sda1: 31 orphan inodes deleted May 3 14:39:39 beeker kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 May 3 14:39:39 beeker kernel: EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal May 3 14:39:39 beeker kernel: EXT3 FS on sda6, internal journal May 3 14:39:39 beeker kernel: Adding 10233364k swap on /dev/sda5. Priority:-2 extents:1 across:10233364k May 3 14:39:52 beeker kernel: Installing knfsd (copyright © 1996 okir@monad.swb.de). May 3 15:12:41 beeker kernel: nfsd: last server has exited, flushing export cache May 3 15:26:02 beeker kernel: nfsd: last server has exited, flushing export cache -
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Here are some outputs relating to the disks. Could it have something to do with the fact that the problem disk is a parallel ATA whereas the primary disk is SATA? Of course, the weird thing is that it worked right before the update yesterday.
/dev/sdb6 is the partition where I have X-plane. /dev/sdb5 is where I tried installing the demo version and also experienced very slow access. Everything on /dev/sda appears to be normal although I notice it now takes "forever" (meaning 3 or 4 minutes) to shut down. I've attributed this to the system trying to access the problem drive but that's just a guess.
[darrell@beeker ~]$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 289G 12G 263G 5% / /dev/sda6 161G 1.7G 159G 2% /home /dev/sdb6 146G 73G 66G 53% /home/drive2 pluto:/home/public/shared_folders 144G 59G 78G 44% /home/shared /dev/sr1 1.4G 1.4G 0 100% /media/cdrom /dev/sdb5 145G 188M 145G 1% /media/disk [darrell@beeker ~]$ mount /dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime) none on /proc type proc (rw) /dev/sda6 on /home type ext3 (rw,relatime) /dev/sdb6 on /home/drive2 type ext3 (rw,relatime) none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw) pluto:/home/public/shared_folders on /home/shared type nfs (rw,addr=192.168.1.110) nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw) /dev/sr1 on /media/cdrom type udf (ro,nosuid,nodev,users,umask=0,iocharset=utf8) /dev/sdb5 on /media/disk type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal) [darrell@beeker ~]$ fstab # Entry for /dev/sda1 : UUID=f5ce142c-72f9-468d-9707-fe87a4710db7 / ext3 relatime 1 1 # Entry for /dev/sda6 : UUID=662e5000-3b0e-42f2-9ab9-127de1be1785 /home ext3 relatime 1 2 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto umask=0,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto umask=0,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,exec,flush 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 # Entry for /dev/hdf1 : UUID=457f6838-c404-4caa-b9d3-2401ab447183 swap swap defaults 0 0 # Entry for /dev/sda5 : UUID=16fda530-a358-44e7-9bfc-8ab4985262ed swap swap defaults 0 0 # Entry for the first partition on the 300G parallal ATA drive UUID=34a77076-5625-4c44-88e8-4a8314512132 /home/drive2 ext3 relatime 1 2 # NFS mount to file server pluto:/home/public/shared_folders /home/shared nfs rw 0 0
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After a relatively painless update from Powerpak 2009.0 to 2009.1, my system is now having disk access problems. The main 500G SATA drive that I have the kernel and user directories on is fine. All programs appear to work normally. But, my second 300G drive now has access issues on all partitions. The problem seems to be access speed and not file corruption and it occured as a result of the upgrade.
Debugging Attempt -- I have X-plane installed on one of the partitions on the (now slow) 300G drive. It didn't seem to start after the update but it didn't crash either. So, to make sure it wasn't the NVIDIA driver I left it to go through the startup sequence and, after abour 2 1/2 hours (no, I am not exaggerating) it did start and run. During initialization it usually flies through reading the setup files but right now I can watch each go by very slowly. Thinking there was a problem with the installation I attempted to install the X-plane demo on the other partition on the 300G drive but killed it after it took a couple minutes just to scan and unzip 90 files which would normally be near instantaneous. I ran 'top' in the terminal and don't see any process hogging CPU cycles. It's more like there is a just some sort of serious wait or delay going on.
I guess I am lucky that the only thing on the 300G drive is X-plane. Had my primary disk had this issue the system wouldn't be useable.
I did scan through the forums and didn't happen to see anything like this. I am relatively confident that this is not a hardware problem as the drive worked fine prior to updating to 2009.1. But, I am not sure how to go about isolating this problem either.
Any guidance to help work this problem would be much appreciated.
USB devices not being found after 2009.1 update
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Since updating from Mandriva 2009.0 to 2009.1 I am experiencing USB problems. Seems that the software is unable to see the hardware. Originally I thought it was just my joysticks but digging further I see it also affects the Bluetooth dongle and the UPS power supply monitoring.
In all cases, after booting, the different applications are not able to see the USB device.
* the bluetooth icon doesn't pop up showing that the dongle is present and the bluetooth configurator reports that no device is present. Interestingly, if I unplug it and then plug it back in it shows up and works. This worked properly with 2009.0
* my APC Back-UPS ES cannot be found if I try to set up a UPS for monitoring. It worked properly with 2009.0
* neither my CH Products yoke or CH Products pedals can be found by X-plane. I then tried to set them up using jscalibrator and it can't find them either. These worked fine with 2009.0.
* scanner seems to work fine with X-sane.
So, it seems that the various applications can't see these hardware devices. However, it does look like they are getting detected. How can I go about debugging this further? Thanks a lot!