From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 30 11:16:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chamber.cco.caltech.edu (chamber.cco.caltech.edu [131.215.48.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC1EF37B400 for ; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 11:16:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from skank (charter-182-4.caltech.edu [131.215.182.4]) by chamber.cco.caltech.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA08459 for ; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 11:16:40 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200203301916.LAA08459@chamber.cco.caltech.edu> From: Nicholas Palko To: X-Mailer: PocoMail 2.5 (974) - Registered Version Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 11:16:38 -0800 Subject: slow hard disk transfer Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hello all i'm running 4.5-R on an abit KT7E (950 MHz, 512MB ram) with 4= ultra66 IDE adaptors and 8 segate 5400 rpm 80 gig disks. each disk is on it's own IDE channel. as= far as bootime goes, each drive is reconized in UDMA66 mode. however, the transfer throughput on data between drives is= incredibly poor - but the transfers from a disk to the network flrit with the theoretical max throughput= for the network. if anyone has any thoughts i'd love to hear it nicholas palko nickyp@its.caltech.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message