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Date:      Fri, 7 Apr 1995 01:19:39 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Sujal Patel <smpatel@wam.umd.edu>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: large filesystems/multiple disks [RAID]
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSD.3.91.950407011754.145C-100000@xi.dorm.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199504070516.WAA06264@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>

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On Thu, 6 Apr 1995, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:

> Did you have spindle sync on the Quantum drives?  This is very important
> if you want to eliminate rotational delay problems when muxing the
> data out to the drive.  You also need to have the interleave data chunk
> match closely to the drive cache size (or smaller, but not to small).

Unfortuantly, The Quantum drives do not support spindle sync.  and also 
they only have a 96k cache on them too.

> Your choice of controllers was poor.  I have run 2 drives on a 1742
> doing iozone to both drives at the same time (3+MB/sec each drive)
> for a controller throughput of 6MB/sec.
> I have run 2 4MB/sec drives on an NCR 825 based controller and got
> 7+MB/sec combined throughtput.

It's possible that the controller is at fault here.  Even though it is a 
EISA controller, it's very old-- I've had mine for many years.


Sujal



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