From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 11 16:57:19 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1471D16A6DE for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:57:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCA86442DB for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:51:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from [172.23.170.136] (helo=anti-virus01-07) by smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GtoO4-0005eK-SZ; Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:52:20 +0000 Received: from [80.192.25.35] (helo=[192.168.0.2]) by asmtp-out1.blueyonder.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GtoO3-00009R-Ne; Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:52:19 +0000 Message-ID: <457D8CC3.1010409@dial.pipex.com> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:52:19 +0000 From: Alex Zbyslaw User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-GB; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20061205 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware References: <4575AF9B.50507@dial.pipex.com> <1165851130.32069.22.camel@picard.scorec.rpi.edu> In-Reply-To: <1165851130.32069.22.camel@picard.scorec.rpi.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Dell 1900 and SATA X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:57:19 -0000 Adam Todorski wrote: >I have a PowerEdge 860 with the SAS 5i/R controller in it and it works >fine with 6.2-RC1 (uses MPT + direct access SCSI modules). One thing >that I have noticed, however, is that when testing performance under >Bonnie++ the write times (both characters and blocks) are slow >(~6.5MB/sec). I have not tried making multiple RAID volumes, which I >hear is an issue with this controller + fBSD. > > That's brilliant; thanks so much for checking this out. I can google for mpt to see what the current state of play is. I'm presuming you tried either straight disks or a RAID-1 for the bonnie tests? Do you have a record of exactly which LSI controller it is? May not matter that much but just in case... Thanks again, --Alex PS Can't email you directly as apparently your mail relay doesn't like my ISP's spam record, which I can't do much about :-(