Re: Tuning Hard Disks

2005-05-25 Thread Christian Hiris
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'

Re: Tuning Hard Disks

2005-05-24 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
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

Re: Tuning Hard Disks

2005-05-24 Thread Luyt
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

Tuning Hard Disks

2005-05-23 Thread Benjamin Keating
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

Re: Tuning Hard Disks

2005-05-23 Thread Craig Kleski
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

Re: Tuning Hard Disks

2005-05-23 Thread Roland Smith
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

Re: Tuning Hard Disks

2005-05-23 Thread Benjamin Keating
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,

Re: Tuning Hard Disks

2005-05-23 Thread Benjamin Keating
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

Re: Tuning Hard Disks

2005-05-23 Thread Roland Smith
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