Be sure to pick up the latest driver. A verion 1.0 optimized driver was
released last week that significantly improves the performance of these
cards.
Will
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To: Daniel Veillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Sunday, April 25, 1999 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: Issues with Dell PowerEdge 6100/200?
> > > Are there any issues or gotchas with these?
> >
> > Those RAID cards are now supported in standard in 2.0.36 and 2.2.x,
but
> > they perform *really* badly under linux. Probably due to an untuned
driver
> > basically iozone or any I/O test program nearly freeze the machine :-(
>
> I get about 7MB/sec read and write with the Intel manufactured AMI
> firmware board in my Netframe MV5000. System performance seems to lag
> more when write-back caching is turned on. I don't think it's very
> stellar performance for a RAID 5 array of 6 UW 9,000RPM SCSI disks, but
> it's stable enough with the latest driver revisions. I'd really love to
> see this driver optimized though, reportedly it moves pretty well under
> NT. I'm not planning on installing that to test it though, so I can't
> post numbers.
>
> This is the OEM card that runs at 66Mhz, not the retail 33Mhz version.
>
>
> Brian Pape
> Computer Resource Services
> University California Los Angeles
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>
>
>
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