I haven't been able to find this new driver. Could someone
post to the list it's location?
Thanks!
-brad
Will wrote:
>
> 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
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Daniel Veillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 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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> > fax: (310) 206-6039
> >
> >
> >
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