Maverick on Weybridge + WD2.5THDD

[Colin Ian King]

I'll put the HDD into a soak test at the raw device level next week to
exercise every sector. I reckon it will take ~30 hours to fill the
device, so I will run this for a week to get 2-3 write/read iterations
done.

Colin

On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 16:07 -0700, Bob Griswold wrote:
> Hey, they don't fry.  :(
> 
> Remember, SATA-class HDD running massive concurrent IO nonstop is not the
> environment or market it's sold into.  For that, you'd need a moderately
> more expensive Enterprise-class SATA HDD.  Please follow me to the display
> case, in the back...
> 
> Bob
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: manoj.iyer at canonical.com [mailto:manoj.iyer at canonical.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 3:51 PM
> To: Hsiung, Harry L
> Cc: Manoj Iyer; Bob Griswold; Ubuntu Kernel Team
> Subject: RE: Maverick on Weybridge + WD2.5THDD 
> 
> 
> Harry,
> 
> I started a stress test this afternoon and it is still going, the test
> spawns 32768 threads, which is little over 1/2 max threads, and each thread
> write/remove 1GB files (in a loop). Hopefully some of these threads will
> write close to the end of the disk as well. The HDD is warm to the touch,
> hopefully I wont fry the WD drive ;)
> 
> 
> Cheers
> --- manjo
> 
> On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Hsiung, Harry L wrote:
> 
> > I had done an installation on maverick meerkat daily build amd64.iso from
> 9/10/10 for IDF (sept 14th). I did not have any problems and could see all
> of the disk. The official Meerkat build (before sept 11th) appears to have
> UEFI install missing.
> >
> > If you have any disk utilities to test the filesystem (all 2.5tb or 3tb)
> would like to know if the file system is really functional all they way out
> to the end of the disk.
> >
> > Could do the brute force thing of copying files until I fill the disk up
> but it is really time consuming. Checking to see if the filesystem is
> corrupt is still a question in my mind (does fsck check this for disks and
> file systems >2.2 tb)?
> >
> > Harry Hsiung (熊海霖)
> > Intel Corp.
> > SSG PSI Tiano/EFI TME
> > Dupont WA DP2-420
> > office 253-371-5381
> > cell 360-870-2141
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Manoj Iyer [mailto:manoj.iyer at canonical.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 11:31 AM
> > To: Bob Griswold; Hsiung, Harry L
> > Cc: Ubuntu Kernel Team
> > Subject: Maverick on Weybridge + WD2.5THDD
> >
> >
> > Harry/Bob,
> >
> > I was able to install Maverick on the Weybridge with the 2.5T HDD 
> > shipped to me from WD by Bob. Installed from CD in UEFI mode.
> >
> >
> > Disk /dev/sda1: 18 MB, 18874368 bytes
> > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 
> > 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 
> > bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disk 
> > identifier: 0x00000000
> >
> >      Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> >
> >
> > Disk /dev/sda2: 2494.4 GB, 2494448009216 bytes
> > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 303266 cylinders Units = cylinders of 
> > 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes 
> > / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disk 
> > identifier: 0x00000000
> >
> > Looks ok to me at first glance, if you guys notice anything abnormal 
> > please share it with me.
> >
> >
> > Cheers
> > --- manjo
> >
>