Re: Tuning Hard Disks
On Wednesday 25 May 2005 04:51:04, Luyt wrote: Interesting. I did an 'atacontrol cap 0 0' and this came up (see below). It tells that my disk has 'SMART' support, but it isnt enabled. Any idea how I can enable it? Try the port sysutils/smartmontools. AFAIR it installs the command 'smartctl' that can be used to enable various device features. Cheers, ch -- Christian Hiris [EMAIL PROTECTED] | OpenPGP KeyID 0x3BCA53BE OpenPGP-Key at hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net and http://pgp.mit.edu pgpI1PhsKcvZV.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Tuning Hard Disks
Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 02:47:21PM -0700, Benjamin Keating wrote: Thank you. This is exactly what I was looking for. How did you learn about these tools? From the pages i've read (most of) the handbook, I didn't see it mention them. I came across one of the control programs in a manual page, and then I used ls to look for others: Another useful command is man -k e.g. man -k control and if you're not a C programmer man -k control | egrep -v '(3)' | less Or even locate control --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tuning Hard Disks
Interesting. I did an 'atacontrol cap 0 0' and this came up (see below). It tells that my disk has 'SMART' support, but it isnt enabled. Any idea how I can enable it? ATA channel 0, Master, device ad0: Protocol Serial ATA v1.0 device model Maxtor 6Y200M0 serial number Y6988PLE firmware revision YAR511W0 cylinders 16383 heads 16 sectors/track 63 lba supported 268435455 sectors lba48 supported 398297088 sectors dma supported overlap not supported Feature Support EnableValue Vendor write cacheyes yes read ahead yes yes SATA NCQ no- 0/0x00 SMART yes no microcode download yes yes security yes no power management yes yes advanced power management yes no 0/0x00 automatic acoustic management yes yes 254/0xFE192/0xC0 -- The ability of the OSS process to collect and harness the collective IQ of thousands of individuals across the Internet is simply amazing. - Vinod Vallopillil http://www.opensource.org/halloween/halloween4.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tuning Hard Disks
Hey all, I'd like to tweak my drives / view there current configurations. I get really slow xfers from two machine in the same, quite, LAN (both running FBSD 5.4 with good Intell Pro100 NICS). Im not sure if DMA is enabled or not so I'd like to start with figuring out what to use to view this info. Anything like hdparm? I did a apropos on `dma` but didn't find what I'm looking for. thx ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tuning Hard Disks
On Monday 23 May 2005 06:12 pm, Benjamin Keating wrote: Hey all, I'd like to tweak my drives / view there current configurations. I get really slow xfers from two machine in the same, quite, LAN (both running FBSD 5.4 with good Intell Pro100 NICS). Im not sure if DMA is enabled or not so I'd like to start with figuring out what to use to view this info. Anything like hdparm? I did a apropos on `dma` but didn't find what I'm looking for. thx ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try tuning(7). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tuning Hard Disks
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 11:12:59AM -0700, Benjamin Keating wrote: Hey all, I'd like to tweak my drives / view there current configurations. I get really slow xfers from two machine in the same, quite, LAN (both running FBSD 5.4 with good Intell Pro100 NICS). Im not sure if DMA is enabled or not so I'd like to start with figuring out what to use to view this info. Anything like hdparm? Assuming you have ATA drives, do the following (as root) run 'atacontrol list' to see which channel number the drive is on. Then try 'atacontrol mode N', where N is the channel number. This wil give you the current transfer mode of the drive. You can also use atacontrol to set the mode. See the manual page. You can see if DMA is enabled with 'sysctl hw.ata.ata_dma'. Roland -- R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt pgpVyoGWJaXYe.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Tuning Hard Disks
Thank you. This is exactly what I was looking for. How did you learn about these tools? From the pages i've read (most of) the handbook, I didn't see it mention them. On 5/23/05, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 11:12:59AM -0700, Benjamin Keating wrote: Hey all, I'd like to tweak my drives / view there current configurations. I get really slow xfers from two machine in the same, quite, LAN (both running FBSD 5.4 with good Intell Pro100 NICS). Im not sure if DMA is enabled or not so I'd like to start with figuring out what to use to view this info. Anything like hdparm? Assuming you have ATA drives, do the following (as root) run 'atacontrol list' to see which channel number the drive is on. Then try 'atacontrol mode N', where N is the channel number. This wil give you the current transfer mode of the drive. You can also use atacontrol to set the mode. See the manual page. You can see if DMA is enabled with 'sysctl hw.ata.ata_dma'. Roland -- R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tuning Hard Disks
I just noticed, 3ware managed devices (obviously) don't show up. Is there 3rd party software that needs to be installed in order to view/tune 3ware (twe) devices? Nothing FreeBSD specific came with the card. On 5/23/05, Benjamin Keating [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you. This is exactly what I was looking for. How did you learn about these tools? From the pages i've read (most of) the handbook, I didn't see it mention them. On 5/23/05, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 11:12:59AM -0700, Benjamin Keating wrote: Hey all, I'd like to tweak my drives / view there current configurations. I get really slow xfers from two machine in the same, quite, LAN (both running FBSD 5.4 with good Intell Pro100 NICS). Im not sure if DMA is enabled or not so I'd like to start with figuring out what to use to view this info. Anything like hdparm? Assuming you have ATA drives, do the following (as root) run 'atacontrol list' to see which channel number the drive is on. Then try 'atacontrol mode N', where N is the channel number. This wil give you the current transfer mode of the drive. You can also use atacontrol to set the mode. See the manual page. You can see if DMA is enabled with 'sysctl hw.ata.ata_dma'. Roland -- R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tuning Hard Disks
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 02:47:21PM -0700, Benjamin Keating wrote: (please don't top-post.) Thank you. This is exactly what I was looking for. How did you learn about these tools? From the pages i've read (most of) the handbook, I didn't see it mention them. I came across one of the control programs in a manual page, and then I used ls to look for others: slackbox:~$ ls /usr/sbin/*control /usr/sbin/ancontrol /usr/sbin/kbdcontrol /usr/sbin/raycontrol /usr/sbin/cdcontrol /usr/sbin/l2control /usr/sbin/sdpcontrol /usr/sbin/fdcontrol /usr/sbin/lptcontrol /usr/sbin/sicontrol /usr/sbin/fwcontrol /usr/sbin/memcontrol /usr/sbin/vidcontrol /usr/sbin/hccontrol /usr/sbin/mlxcontrol /usr/sbin/wicontrol slackbox:~$ ls /sbin/*control /sbin/atacontrol /sbin/comcontrol /sbin/spppcontrol /sbin/camcontrol /sbin/conscontrol Roland -- R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt pgpxfhah87l0l.pgp Description: PGP signature
