Re: FreeBSD-AMD64 on Xeon MP

2008-10-20 Thread Eirik Øverby
Hi, Hi all, I try to run FreeBSD-7-AMD64 on a Quad Xeon (Xeon MP 7320) and 32GB RAM. The Board is a X7QC3 by supermicro and the installation is done on another system, updated and plugged to this system. So I have a drive with 7-STABLE compiled today. The last line I see from

Re: Areca vs. ZFS performance testing.

2008-11-16 Thread Eirik Øverby
On Nov 13, 2008, at 21:59, Danny Carroll wrote: Scott Long wrote: The Areca controller likely doesn't buffer/cache for disks in JBOD mode, as others in this thread have stated. Without buffering, simple disk controllers will almost always be faster than accelerated raid controllers because

Re: Promise SATA300 TX4302 feedback?

2009-01-03 Thread Eirik Øverby
On Jan 2, 2009, at 19:38, Vlad Skvortsov wrote: Alex Keda wrote: I'm looking to buy a Promise SATA300 TX4302 (PCI-[e]SATA) card to use for external backups on a FreeBSD 6-STABLE system. Can anyone share their experiences with this one? Use Hardware Controllers - such as 3ware I'm

Areca 1200 controller panics 7.1

2009-01-21 Thread Eirik Øverby
Hi folks, see attached screenshot for panic screen. This happens when booting from 7.1-release CD. The box is a Sun X2200 M2, the controller is a 2- port SATA-II controller with 128mb cache memory. One drive is set as single drive (RAID-0), another as passthrough (to get hold of some data

Re: Areca 1200 controller panics 7.1

2009-01-21 Thread Eirik Øverby
Attachment not getting throuh. Panic transcribed below. /Eirik On Jan 21, 2009, at 20:53, Eirik Øverby wrote: Hi folks, see attached screenshot for panic screen. This happens when booting from 7.1-release CD. The box is a Sun X2200 M2, the controller is a 2-port SATA-II controller

Areca ARC-1210 abysmal performance

2009-01-26 Thread Eirik Øverby
Hi, I've just purchased a pile of Areca 1210 controllers, having seen that they should perform well with FreeBSD. Now having hooked up a pair of them to 4 WD 250gb SATA drives and configured them to RAID1+0, I see them perform very, very badly. Below is a typical test I run on newly