Re: Slow IO in PowerEdge R200 X3330 2.66Ghz 2x3MB Cache.

2010-02-24 Thread Tomas Bodzar
I think, that someone told to you that you must use current ;-) Anyway here you can find something about AHCI and SATA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA If you don't have option to turn AHCI on in your BIOS then you may have problems. If you will read this

Slow IO in PowerEdge R200 X3330 2.66Ghz 2x3MB Cache.

2010-02-23 Thread Andres Salazar
Hello, I had a R201 running in 4.6 i386 stable..I was told this configuration was very new.. so I got a new box this time its a PowerEdge is R200 without any special PCI SATA controller. With 2 SATA II Hard Disks. BIOS Sata setting is set to be in ATA Mode (its either this or OFF). Either after

Re: Slow IO in PowerEdge R200 X3330 2.66Ghz 2x3MB Cache.

2010-02-23 Thread Marco Peereboom
Your disks are still wd so io sucks. Use -current. On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 03:22:28PM -0600, Andres Salazar wrote: Hello, I had a R201 running in 4.6 i386 stable..I was told this configuration was very new.. so I got a new box this time its a PowerEdge is R200 without any special PCI SATA

Re: Slow IO in PowerEdge R200 X3330 2.66Ghz 2x3MB Cache.

2010-02-23 Thread Andres Salazar
Hello, I believe that these disks are SATA II (http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=6278576e14ee9110VgnVCM10 f5ee0a0aRCRD) and thus would always fall under wd driver as per the man page. I believe that sd is for scsi only. Is this assumption correct? Andres On Tue, Feb 23, 2010

Re: Slow IO in PowerEdge R200 X3330 2.66Ghz 2x3MB Cache.

2010-02-23 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 08:46:57PM -0600, Andres Salazar wrote: Hello, I believe that these disks are SATA II (http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=6278576e14ee9110VgnVCM10f5ee0a0aRCRD) and thus would always fall under wd driver as per the man page. I believe that sd is for