Bug 172764

Summary:	error message at hdparm -tT /dev/sda with SATA
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Sebastian <skoesters>
Component:	hdparm	Assignee:	Karsten Hopp <karsten>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	4	CC:	sangu.fedora
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Description Sebastian 2005-11-09 10:51:31 UTC

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Description of problem:
hdparm -tT /dev/sda gives the following errors

/dev/sda:
 Timing cached reads:   2440 MB in  2.00 seconds = 1219.92 MB/sec
HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
 Timing buffered disk reads:  170 MB in  3.01 seconds =  56.44 MB/sec
HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device

This only happens on Systems with SATA and Fedora 4. On Fedora 3 with SATA everything works fine



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.6.13-1.1532_FC4smp

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.installing Fedora 4 on System with SATA
2.hdparm -tT /dev/sda

  

Actual Results:  i get the error messages posted above

Expected Results:  a normal hdparm test like on Fedora 3

Additional info:

on Systems with FEdora 4 and SATA we have high load while copying

Comment 1 Karsten Hopp 2005-11-09 10:57:42 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 138674 ***

Comment 2 sangu 2006-03-30 11:54:33 UTC

This problem still happens in hdparm-6.3-2.2 and FC5.
$ sudo /sbin/hdparm -i /dev/sda
Reopen with version FC5.

/dev/sda:
 HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device

and hdparm 6.6 was released. 

Please See : http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=136732