On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Oliver Lehmann wrote: > A colleague of mine has the same disks in a new Nvidia Atom 330 > system and he told me that he reaches around 70MB/sec write speed > with a single large file on a single disk running linux 2.6. > > I hooked the disk up to my client: > > FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #0: Tue Jul 28 12:59:47 CEST 2009 > CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ (2200.10-MHz K8-class CPU) > usable memory = 2138615808 (2039 MB) > atapci0: <VIA 6420 SATA150 controller> port > 0xd000-0xd007,0xc800-0xc803,0xc400-0xc407,0xc000-0xc003,0xb800-0xb80f >,0xb400 -0xb4ff irq 20 at device 15.0 on pci0 > ad4: 953869MB <WDC WD10EADS-00L5B1 01.01A01> at ata2-master SATA150 > > because the on-board controller is a VIA 6420 I had to set the > SATA150 Jumper on the harddisk to have the controller detect the > drive.
I found I was getting timeouts with this controller and exactly those drives even with the SATA150 jumper connected. In the end I got a PCI Silicon Image 3114 based controller and it worked fine. That said I gave up on the hardware as I couldn't get the motherboard to boot off the CF/IDE adapter so I got an AMD SB700 based board which works well (fingers crossed :) I didn't do any stand alone drive performance tests though. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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