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ReadSpeed verbose mode question

#1

P

Pumpkin-Pie

Hi.

Just prior to SN798 being live streamed, I looked at the show notes and downloaded & ran ReadSpeed. The results were as follows :

Code: 
  +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  | ReadSpeed: Hyper-accurate mass storage read-performance benchmark. rel 1 |
  |  Benchmarked values are in megabytes read per second at five locations.  |
  +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Driv Size  Drive Identity     Location:    0      25%     50%     75%     100
---- ----- ---------------------------- ------- ------- ------- ------- -------
81  2.0TB WDC WD2003FZEX-00Z4SA0        166.4   153.2   138.3   116.5    87.3
82  3.0TB WDC WD3003FZEX-00Z4SA0        169.0   162.7   150.4   131.5   101.5
83  4.0TB WDC WD40EZRZ-00GXCB0          172.9   163.9   145.6   120.3    82.1

                  Benchmarked: Tuesday, 2020-12-29 at 21:28
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
   See the ReadSpeed forums at forums.grc.com for help and community support.

This morning, I re-ran ReadSpeed in verbose mode and observed this :

Code: 
  +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  | ReadSpeed: Hyper-accurate mass storage read-performance benchmark. rel 1 |
  |  Benchmarked values are in megabytes read per second at five locations.  |
  +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+

  AHCI '.' and IDE '-' drive reset & diagnostic latencies in milliseconds:

  61.614 61.613 61.1,007

  Associating BIOS drive [80-83]:

  [ 80 81! 82 83 ]

  BIOS drive count: 4

  BIOS Inter Bus Location Dev Port Intr
  ---- ----- --- -------- --- ---- ----
   80   USB  PCI  2: 0:0   3                                                  

  BIOS Location Type Clas Pg Vend Devi Prt Intr Cmmd Ctrl Mast Driv Link Size
  ---- -------- ---- ---- -- ---- ---- --- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- -----
   81   0:17:0  AHCI 0106 01 1002 4391  0    7  < AHCI Cntrl >  6.0  6.0 2.0TB
   82   0:17:0  AHCI 0106 01 1002 4391  1    7  < AHCI Cntrl >  6.0  6.0 3.0TB
   83   0:17:0  AHCI 0106 01 1002 4391  3    7  < AHCI Cntrl >  6.0  6.0 4.0TB

What I am concerned about is in the list of BIOS drives 80 to 83, drive 81 is shown as 81! - does the appearance of the ! character indicate a problem?

Many thanks in advance. My system is a few years old and runs VirtualBox - my copy of SpinRite 6.0 won't work on these GPT formatted disks so I'm looking forward to version 6.1 in the New Year. Thanks again. Tom


#2

D

DarkwinX

@Pumpkin-Pie the presence of the ! does not indicate an issue. It indicates that a different method of association was used as the first method did not successfully and uniquely identify your drives.


#3

P

Pumpkin-Pie

Thanks @DarkwinX that's good to know.


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