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Date:      Mon, 25 Oct 2004 19:59:46 +0200
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@DeepCore.dk>
To:        Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 5.3b7and poor ata performance
Message-ID:  <417D3F12.20302@DeepCore.dk>
In-Reply-To: <200410251837.58257.Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com>
References:  <14479.1098695558@critter.freebsd.dk> <417D25E8.6080804@ng.fadesa.es> <200410251928.01536.victor@alf.dyndns.ws> <200410251837.58257.Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com>

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Thomas Sparrevohn wrote:
> On Monday 25 October 2004 18:28, Victor Balada Diaz wrote:
>=20
>>On Monday 25 October 2004 18:12, fandino wrote:
>>
>>>Thanks to the excelent job of Thomas Sparrevohn I get 52MB/s, this is
>>>an excerpt of their comments:
>>>
>>>"Changes the DMA speed to 66 - The Controller is a 100 controller and =
the
>>>disks are 100 Disks but I think the default for the controller is 66 a=
nd
>>>hence there are most likely a small initialisation difference between
>>>Linux, NetBSD and FreeBSD"
>>
>>Hi
>>
>>please can you post how do you solved the problem?
>=20
> atacontrol mode <channel> DMA4 DMA4
> atacontrol mode <channel2> DMA4 DMA4
>=20
> The reason is that the motherboard only supports ATA100 on two out of f=
our IDE=20
> channels and hence you need to force the two other channels to run at D=
MA66=20

How do you come to that conclusion ? There is no such limitation AFAIK.

However you can only get a total sum of 133MB/s divided by number of=20
disks (and minus some overhead on older system there is typically=20
110MB/s effective bandwidth)..

The real explanation is much more likely that the timing specs are=20
marginal (overclocked ?) for the disks, which causes problems..

--=20

-S=F8ren




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