From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 23 10:47:12 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3135E16A4E1 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 10:47:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12CC143D6A for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 10:47:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id j3so1853337ugf for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 03:47:03 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=GdcwMDECFhI0qiPb2v4WKS8iKkm+40AZJd8gAnp+XqU/m3NMNZjFn6N39JpiLNbo1Dd8rDfK9Pcm2Nb32u5N0C6HQqGm7AHhInt6hKEjxgIrm9I7QH6Gnz3AQN2m/xu0OLdFkAVB4iQ9jLV4QLt4MzhSzGLFS49GF01w1C6la4A= Received: by 10.78.185.7 with SMTP id i7mr1092326huf; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 03:47:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.143.13 with HTTP; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 03:47:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 05:47:03 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "Richard Collyer" In-Reply-To: <44C3442C.1020602@firebadger.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <44C26B7A.30200@firebadger.net> <44C27E7B.3070103@firebadger.net> <44C3302A.5070803@firebadger.net> <44C3442C.1020602@firebadger.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slow Write Performance on 3ware controller X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 10:47:12 -0000 On 7/23/06, Richard Collyer wrote: > Nikolas Britton wrote: > > That would be unacceptable in my book. Whats the load on the system? > > Is the 3ware 9500S in a regular PCI 33MHz/32-bit slot? > > Motherboard/CPU? > > The motherboard is an Intel N440BX running 2 PIII 600MHZ (feel the > power). FreeBSD version is 5.4 > > 32 bit PCI not sure if they are 33/66Mhz as I dont have the manual to > hand. Now the card is in the bottom PCI slot which is the only place it > would fit becuase of the 7006-2 above it and the way that the standard > IDE connectors are mounted. Ok... that might be the best you can get speed wise with the above system. You should be able to milk alot more performance out of that card if you put it in a newer system. > > Would moving the top card to the bottom slot and putting the 9500S-12 in > the top slot screw with FreeBSD in anyway or will it just accept the > changes and keep on going? I don't see any problem doing that... FreeBSD would only care if it was the boot drive AND if it also changed the device name in /dev. So yes... try it... if it changes the /dev name just edit /etc/fstab with the new settings. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/