Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:52:19 +0000 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: freebsd-hardware <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Dell 1900 and SATA Message-ID: <457D8CC3.1010409@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <1165851130.32069.22.camel@picard.scorec.rpi.edu> References: <4575AF9B.50507@dial.pipex.com> <1165851130.32069.22.camel@picard.scorec.rpi.edu>
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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 :-(
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