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Date:      Thu, 8 Jun 2000 17:20:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Aleksandr A. Babaylov" <babolo@zx.ru>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: misc/19129: AMI Raid Express 200 card extremely slow ( < 6MB/s)
Message-ID:  <200006090020.RAA41861@freefall.freebsd.org>

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From: "Aleksandr A. Babaylov" <babolo@zx.ru>
To: cwilkes@singingfish.com
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: misc/19129: AMI Raid Express 200 card extremely slow ( < 6MB/s)
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 04:17:59 +0400 (MSD)

 cwilkes@singingfish.com writes:
 > 
 > >Number:         19129
 > >Category:       misc
 > >Synopsis:       AMI Raid Express 200 card extremely slow ( < 6MB/s)
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       non-critical
 > >Priority:       medium
 > >Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
 > >State:          open
 > >Quarter:        
 > >Keywords:       
 > >Date-Required:
 > >Class:          sw-bug
 > >Submitter-Id:   current-users
 > >Arrival-Date:   Thu Jun 08 11:30:00 PDT 2000
 > >Closed-Date:
 > >Last-Modified:
 > >Originator:     Chris Wilkes
 > >Release:        4.0
 > >Organization:
 > >Environment:
 > FreeBSD octopus 4.0-STABLE FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE #0: Sun May 28 11:04:59 GMT 2000
 > >Description:
 > File server with an AMI MegaRaid Express 200 card attached to a disk enclosure
 > with 8 9G LVD SCSI2 drives, for a total of ~60G of RAID5 storage.
 > Disk writes are extremely slow on it, around 6MB/s.  Called AMI and they
 > suggested moving from Linux to FreeBSD.  Did that and I still see the same
 > (bad) performance.
 I see that if LVD controller works with non-LVD disks
 I dont know  AMI MegaRaid Express 200 card  - are you shure it has
 LVD interface?
 
 > Speed (MB/s)	Description
 > 17.1		internal SCSI -> other internal SCSI
 > 16.5		raid -> internal scsi
 > 6.05		internal scsi -> raid
 > 4.10		raid -> raid
 > 
 > The drives are rated at 20MB/s, I'm really happy with the 17.1MB/s I'm seeing
 > for local to local.  I was expecting a huge gain up to about the 80MB/s max
 > spec for scsi-2, but instead writes are 1/3 the speed.
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > Reformated drives after the system became unstable and core dumped on an
 > fsck.  Still the same performance numbers.
 > >Fix:
 > 
 > 
 > >Release-Note:
 > >Audit-Trail:
 > >Unformatted:
 > 
 > 
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