Re: SATA300
Jason Lenthe wrote: My machine, a home-brew running 7.0-RELEASE-p2, has 3 SATA hard drives all of which were advertised as SATA300 drives, but: vader# dmesg | grep ATA ata0: ATA channel 0 on atapci0 ata1: ATA channel 1 on atapci0 atapci1: Intel ICH7 SATA300 controller port 0x20c8-0x20cf,0x20ec-0x20ef,0x20c0-0x20c7,0x20e8-0x20eb,0x20a0-0x20af irq 19 at device 31.2 on pci0 ata2: ATA channel 0 on atapci1 ata3: ATA channel 1 on atapci1 ad4: 305245MB Hitachi HDT725032VLA360 V54OA7EA at ata2-master SATA150 ad5: 476940MB MAXTOR STM3500630AS 3.AAE at ata2-slave SATA150 ad6: 305245MB Hitachi HDT725032VLA360 V54OA7EA at ata3-master SATA150 Does this mean I'm only getting half the throughput I could be getting? Thanks, Jason ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can test speed of your harddisk with diskinfo. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SATA300
ad5: 476940MB MAXTOR STM3500630AS 3.AAE at ata2-slave SATA150 ad6: 305245MB Hitachi HDT725032VLA360 V54OA7EA at ata3-master SATA150 Does this mean I'm only getting half the throughput I could be getting? still more that actually drive can get from media (about 100MB/s) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SATA300
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 11:22:26PM -0400, Jason Lenthe wrote: My machine, a home-brew running 7.0-RELEASE-p2, has 3 SATA hard drives all of which were advertised as SATA300 drives, but: vader# dmesg | grep ATA ata0: ATA channel 0 on atapci0 ata1: ATA channel 1 on atapci0 atapci1: Intel ICH7 SATA300 controller port 0x20c8-0x20cf,0x20ec-0x20ef,0x20c0-0x20c7,0x20e8-0x20eb,0x20a0-0x20af irq 19 at device 31.2 on pci0 ata2: ATA channel 0 on atapci1 ata3: ATA channel 1 on atapci1 ad4: 305245MB Hitachi HDT725032VLA360 V54OA7EA at ata2-master SATA150 ad5: 476940MB MAXTOR STM3500630AS 3.AAE at ata2-slave SATA150 ad6: 305245MB Hitachi HDT725032VLA360 V54OA7EA at ata3-master SATA150 Does this mean I'm only getting half the throughput I could be getting? Considering that the fastest SATA drives available today tops out at a throughput of about 120MB/s (and most are quite a bit slower), I would say that any speed loss from running at SATA150 speed instead of SATA300 will be fairly minor and probably not even noticable. Many SATA hard drives have a jumper that can be used to limit them to SATA150 speeds. It is often set by default, since some older SATA controllers fail to auto-negotiate speed correctly, so the drive must be running at SATA150 to work with those controllers. See if you drives have such a jumper set. If so try removing it. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SATA300 Controllers
On Wed, 5 Jul 2006 20:02:55 -0500 Derrick T. Woolworth wrote: Has anyone had success with SATA300 controllers with FreeBSD 6.1? I've been trying Promise and nVidia nForce4 and I'm not having any luck. Using a MSI I have an nForce4 built-in card on amd64 motherboard and use it as a testing machine with 6.1-STABLE/7.0-CURRENT amd64/i386 worlds. Everyting is fine so far (crossing fingers). K8NGM2-L motherboard and others, but 6.1's installation hangs as soon as it sees ad4. I've also tried using an Adaptec 1210SA controller and had zero results. I've read that the chipset on this controller is not very good - forces serialized access to the controller's channels??? Nevertheless, I've got a K8N Diamond motherboard on a workstation and I was able to at least start the 6.1 installation. I have no idea if its stable. At this point, I'd settle for just knowing which SATA300 controller to use that will work successfully and well with FreeBSD 6.0 OR 6.1. Another question, would I have more success installing 6.0 and then upgrading the kernel and recompiling with a build-world? I'm currently trying to build a moderate large system with 4 presentation servers, 2 database servers and one large storage system using NFS mapped to ~1.2 terrabyte of SATA disks (4x Maxtor 500GB 7200 RPM disks w/RAID5 config). Any suggestions? WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SATA300 Controllers
Derrick T. Woolworth wrote: Hello all, Sorry for cross-posting, but these issues seem relevant for lists... We'll survive, but for future reference it's almost never appropriate to cross-post between freebsd-questions and other FreeBSD lists. Has anyone had success with SATA300 controllers with FreeBSD 6.1? [ ... ] I've got a K8N Diamond motherboard on a workstation and I was able to at least start the 6.1 installation. I've got a K8N Diamond board as well, and FreeBSD 6.0 6.1 seems to work just fine with either the nVidia integrated 4-channel SATA controller, and with the SilImage 3132 2-channel SATA controller. Note that I've only tested single-drive operation, though-- I haven't had the need to set up RAID on this one yet... -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SATA300 Controllers
Hi, I've been having the same issues. The conclusion of my testing is that type of card (aka Adaptec 1210SA, Promise PDC2* ) are not stable, reliable, performant. (For my taste btw) The underlying technology is just mickey mouse: They store the config on drive (ok); They dont accelerate mirror that much. (mirror function in driver); If you loose a drive your filesystem jam (since the mirror function is in the driver); You have to rebuilt via the bios (long downtime). The best card are the 3ware 9000/9500 series. Which is a real hard implementation. FYI: I have both success with Marvell 88SX5041 SATA150 and Promise PDC20378 SATA150. I had major failure under load with Adaptec 1210SA and Promise TX2300. Good luck. Derrick T. Woolworth wrote: Hello all, Sorry for cross-posting, but these issues seem relevant for lists... Has anyone had success with SATA300 controllers with FreeBSD 6.1? I've been trying Promise and nVidia nForce4 and I'm not having any luck. Using a MSI K8NGM2-L motherboard and others, but 6.1's installation hangs as soon as it sees ad4. I've also tried using an Adaptec 1210SA controller and had zero results. I've read that the chipset on this controller is not very good - forces serialized access to the controller's channels??? Nevertheless, I've got a K8N Diamond motherboard on a workstation and I was able to at least start the 6.1 installation. I have no idea if its stable. At this point, I'd settle for just knowing which SATA300 controller to use that will work successfully and well with FreeBSD 6.0 OR 6.1. Another question, would I have more success installing 6.0 and then upgrading the kernel and recompiling with a build-world? I'm currently trying to build a moderate large system with 4 presentation servers, 2 database servers and one large storage system using NFS mapped to ~1.2 terrabyte of SATA disks (4x Maxtor 500GB 7200 RPM disks w/RAID5 config). Any suggestions? Thanks, Derrick ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Alain Hebert[EMAIL PROTECTED] PubNIX Inc. P.O. Box 175 Beaconsfield, Quebec H9W 5T7 tel 514-990-5911 http://www.pubnix.netfax 514-990-9443 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SATA300 Controllers
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 08:02:55PM -0500, Derrick T. Woolworth wrote.. Hello all, Sorry for cross-posting, but these issues seem relevant for lists... Has anyone had success with SATA300 controllers with FreeBSD 6.1? I've been trying Promise and nVidia nForce4 and I'm not having any luck. Using a MSI K8NGM2-L motherboard and others, but 6.1's installation hangs as soon as it sees ad4. I've also tried using an Adaptec 1210SA controller and had zero Well, just as a datapoint this works fine for me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~: dmesg|grep -i Prom atapci0: Promise PDC20771 SATA300 controller port 0xd480-0xd4ff,0xd000-0xd0ff mem 0xf7ff6000-0xf7ff6fff,0xf7fa-0xf7fb irq 21 at device 13.0 on pci2 ar0: 238475MB Promise Fasttrak RAID1 status: READY [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~: uname -a FreeBSD freebie.xs4all.nl 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #2: Wed Jun 14 22:01:33 CEST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FREEBIE i386 -- Wilko Bulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SATA300 Controllers
Wilko Bulte wrote: On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 08:02:55PM -0500, Derrick T. Woolworth wrote.. Hello all, Sorry for cross-posting, but these issues seem relevant for lists... Has anyone had success with SATA300 controllers with FreeBSD 6.1? I've been trying Promise and nVidia nForce4 and I'm not having any luck. Using a MSI K8NGM2-L motherboard and others, but 6.1's installation hangs as soon as it sees ad4. I've also tried using an Adaptec 1210SA controller and had zero Well, just as a datapoint this works fine for me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~: dmesg|grep -i Prom atapci0: Promise PDC20771 SATA300 controller port 0xd480-0xd4ff,0xd000-0xd0ff mem 0xf7ff6000-0xf7ff6fff,0xf7fa-0xf7fb irq 21 at device 13.0 on pci2 ar0: 238475MB Promise Fasttrak RAID1 status: READY [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~: uname -a FreeBSD freebie.xs4all.nl 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #2: Wed Jun 14 22:01:33 CEST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FREEBIE i386 Promise has a good relationship with FreeBSD, I would expect their controllers to work pretty well. Scott ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SATA300 Controllers
Derrick T. Woolworth wrote: Hello all, Sorry for cross-posting, but these issues seem relevant for lists... Has anyone had success with SATA300 controllers with FreeBSD 6.1? I've been trying Promise and nVidia nForce4 and I'm not having any luck. Using a MSI Yes, this chipset works well for me. --- atapci0: Intel ICH7 SATA300 controller port 0x3040-0x3047,0x3034-0x3037,0x3038-0x303f,0x3030-0x3033,0x3020-0x302f mem 0xed00-0xed0003ff irq 19 at device 31.2 on pci0 ad4: 152627MB Seagate ST3160812AS 3.AAE at ata2-master SATA300 GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm created (id=1306182778). GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm: provider ad4 detected. ad6: 152627MB Seagate ST3160812AS 3.AAE at ata3-master SATA300 SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm: provider ad6 detected. GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm: provider ad6 activated. GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm: provider ad4 activated. GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm: provider mirror/gm launched. --- For a simple RAID such as mirroring, i strongly suggest you stay away from cheap/onboard RAID solutions, and use gmirror instead. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SATA300 Controllers
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 03:26:17PM -0600, Scott Long wrote.. Wilko Bulte wrote: On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 08:02:55PM -0500, Derrick T. Woolworth wrote.. Hello all, Sorry for cross-posting, but these issues seem relevant for lists... Has anyone had success with SATA300 controllers with FreeBSD 6.1? I've been trying Promise and nVidia nForce4 and I'm not having any luck. Using a MSI K8NGM2-L motherboard and others, but 6.1's installation hangs as soon as it sees ad4. I've also tried using an Adaptec 1210SA controller and had zero Well, just as a datapoint this works fine for me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~: dmesg|grep -i Prom atapci0: Promise PDC20771 SATA300 controller port 0xd480-0xd4ff,0xd000-0xd0ff mem 0xf7ff6000-0xf7ff6fff,0xf7fa-0xf7fb irq 21 at device 13.0 on pci2 ar0: 238475MB Promise Fasttrak RAID1 status: READY [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~: uname -a FreeBSD freebie.xs4all.nl 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #2: Wed Jun 14 22:01:33 CEST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FREEBIE i386 Promise has a good relationship with FreeBSD, I would expect their controllers to work pretty well. Yup. I cleared this TX2200 (IIRC) card with Soren first before I ordered it. It only has SATA150 disks connected to it though, I do not own SATA300 drives. All in all the whole thing works fine for me. -- Wilko Bulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SATA300 Controllers
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 08:02:55PM -0500, Derrick T. Woolworth wrote: Sorry for cross-posting, but these issues seem relevant for lists... That's okay, I am not on all and I'll create some bounces, I am sure. Has anyone had success with SATA300 controllers with FreeBSD 6.1? I've been trying Promise and nVidia nForce4 and I'm not having any luck. Using a MSI K8NGM2-L motherboard and others, but 6.1's installation hangs as soon as it sees ad4. I've also tried using an Adaptec 1210SA controller and had zero results. I've read that the chipset on this controller is not very good - forces serialized access to the controller's channels??? Nevertheless, I've got a K8N Diamond motherboard on a workstation and I was able to at least start the 6.1 installation. I have no idea if its stable. At this point, I'd settle for just knowing which SATA300 controller to use that will work successfully and well with FreeBSD 6.0 OR 6.1. Another question, would I have more success installing 6.0 and then upgrading the kernel and recompiling with a build-world? I am running 6.0 and 6.1 systems (-STABLE) with both ARECA 12xx cards and 3WARE/AMCC 9550SX cards. Neither are cheap, but they are doing the job and are in use in binary spoolers for news. I'm currently trying to build a moderate large system with 4 presentation servers, 2 database servers and one large storage system using NFS mapped to ~1.2 terrabyte of SATA disks (4x Maxtor 500GB 7200 RPM disks w/RAID5 config). Any suggestions? Up the # of spindles? :) -- Mike Horwath, reachable via [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
