From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Oct 25 17:49: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from camelot.bitart.com (BITart-45.BITart.com [206.103.221.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C011537B479 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 17:49:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 1661 invoked by uid 101); 26 Oct 2000 00:48:56 -0000 Message-ID: <20001026004856.1660.qmail@camelot.bitart.com> Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 4.2mach v148) In-Reply-To: <200010260037.e9Q0bGS54307@grumpy.dyndns.org> X-Nextstep-Mailer: Mail 4.2mach (Enhance 2.2p1) Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.148) From: Gerd Knops Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 19:48:56 -0500 To: David Kelly Subject: Re: IDE drives to avoid ? [was : Re: ATA problems (rehashed)] Cc: Soren Schmidt , Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: gerti-freebsds@BITart.com References: <200010260037.e9Q0bGS54307@grumpy.dyndns.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Kelly wrote: > Soren Schmidt writes: > > The only drives I can recommed are IBM's, but beware the new DTLA > > series are so fast that some old controllers can have problems with > > them. > > Ditto. This is a system which has me reconsidering the wisdom of SCSI > for my needs: > > CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (501.14-MHz 686-class CPU) > Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x673 Stepping = 3 > Features=0x383f9ff PSE36,MMX,FXSR,XMM> real memory = 134201344 (131056K bytes) > avail memory = 127221760 (124240K bytes) > [...] > ad0: 14649MB [29765/16/63] at ata0-master using > UDMA33 > > Have seen bonnie report over 22 MB/sec on that drive and system. > [...] With these drives and a slightly patched ATA driver (to recognize the onboard promise chipset) ad4: 29314MB [59560/16/63] at ata2-master using UDMA100 ad6: 29314MB [59560/16/63] at ata3-master using UDMA100 I get about 35 MB/sec. Gerd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message