Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 20:09:38 -0500 From: Kenneth Culver <culverk@yumyumyum.org> To: "Jud " <jud@operamail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: EIDE drive performance improvements Message-ID: <200204042009.38742.culverk@yumyumyum.org> In-Reply-To: <20020405003859.29392.qmail@operamail.com> References: <20020405003859.29392.qmail@operamail.com>
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On Thursday 04 April 2002 07:38 pm, Jud wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Kenneth Culver <culverk@alpha.yumyumyum.org> > Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 18:39:12 -0500 (EST) > To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> > Subject: Re: EIDE drive performance improvements > > > > You should be able to, depending on how the controller presents its= elf > > > to the system. The asr driver looks like a scsi disk to the system= , > > > and can accept 255 tagged commands. I haven't seen my array go abo= ve > > > 60, but it does work. > > > > > > -- > > > > Yeah, but we're talking about an ATA array here, I'm not sure that it > > would work the same. > > Some RAID controllers for ATA/IDE drives look like a > single SCSI device to the system. I don't think that's > true of my Promise onboard chip (a software rather than a > hardware controller), because I have no SCSI support in > the kernel but the array works fine. > > Don't think I need much more tuning anyhow - my last "make > world" took a shade under 20 minutes. :) > > Jud OK, now I'm jealous, my 800 athlon with 512MB ram and an ata66 hard drive= =20 still takes over 50 minutes. :-P Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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