Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 17:01:44 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: sos@freebsd.dk Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RocketRaid133 Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20020211160732.04c12890@marble.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <200202111756.g1BHuKS59263@freebsd.dk> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020211120456.024ca010@marble.sentex.ca>
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At 06:56 PM 2/11/02 +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: >It seems Mike Tancsa wrote: > > Hi, > > it seems HighPoint has created their own drivers for the 372 based IDE > raid > > cards. These *seem* to have a bit more guts and features in them than the > > previous cards. Has anyone worked with them ? The previous drives with the > > ar driver are OK but had limited functionality-- especially when compared > > with the 3ware card which sadly they do not make any more (the 6200 I > > mean). Does anyone have these newer Highpoint cards in production ? Are > > they any good? > >We already support the hpt372, and I've just added support for the >hpt374 to -current. STABLE doesnt yet see it as an AR capable device. But the KLD provided by them at http://www.highpoint-tech.com/FreeBSD_v13_370_372.zip works exactly as advertised. I just installed it with the 4.5R ISO and all worked well using RAID1 and RAID0. The Raid 1 performance was OK, but not as great an improvement as the 3ware shows. I seem to recall a noticeable difference between a single drive on UDMA 66, versus that same drive in a RAID1 config (as well as of course RAID0) Simple bonnie numbers -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- --Random-- -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks--- Machine MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU ad0 500 27996 68.3 27833 29.5 13531 15.6 25261 92.7 31253 14.7 195.0 1.0 da0 R1 500 29811 73.2 28939 32.8 13157 16.9 25611 95.0 29396 22.5 209.4 1.4 da0 R0 500 45427 94.0 47434 49.7 17556 23.0 21718 80.3 44401 33.8 198.6 1.5 R0=Raid 0 R1=Raid 1 ad0 is a UDMA 100 Fujitsu 7200 RPM drive of which I put in 2 in the controller. I am a little surprised that the Random seeks would not be that much better. dmesg shows it as da0 at hpt37x20 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: <HPT Inc. HPT37x2 RAID 0 1.05> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 58821MB (120466945 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 7498C) Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a Note, I had to upgrade the BIOS for it to work with my oldish 810 chipset board. But once I did that everything worked as it should. I will try out the GUI management stuff later tonight and try and see how it works with a failed drive tomorrow before I ship the card out. ---Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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