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Date:      Wed, 23 Feb 2000 23:06:06 -0600
From:      John Lengeling <johnl@raccoon.com>
To:        Alejandro Ramirez <ales@megared.net.mx>
Cc:        Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: ABIT BP6, UDMA-66 and wdc AC310200
Message-ID:  <38B4BC3E.94B3437B@raccoon.com>
References:  <200002221730.SAA78748@freebsd.dk> <041001bf7e4e$e087ac80$020a0a0a@megared.net.mx>

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It looks like you have the tape drive on ahc1 along with the disk
drives.
Could the tape drive be negotiating your scsi bus down to a slower
speed?

Have you tried moving the tape drive to ahc0?

johnl

Alejandro Ramirez wrote:
> 
> Hi Soren,
> 
>     Sorry for the intrusion, Im not using the ata driver, but maybe you can
> give me some light, Im subscribed to current, and I was reading this mail, I
> got impressed with the speed that you can get with your disks, so my
> question its the following (see below):
> 
> > > # dd if=/dev/ad4s2 of=/dev/null bs=40960k count=10
> > > 10+0 records in
> > > 10+0 records out
> > > 419430400 bytes transferred in 30.797045 secs (13619177 bytes/sec)
> >
> > Thats probably close to what your drive can pull of the platters...
> > I get 22-23MB/sec off an IBM DPTA drive here with < 1% cpu usage,
> > so the driver is not the problem..
> > I have a config with 7 disks online, giving me a raw throughput
> > of ~100MB/s sustained, that is about the limit of what can be done
> > over the PCI bus...
> 
> If I make this test in a server with scsi-3 disks attached, 10Krpm 9GB
> HotSwap IBM Disks, in a Netfinity 5000 Dual PIII-600 768MB Ram, with the
> server totally idle, fresh install (3.4) I can hardly get 6MB/sec
> trasferred, how can I achieve more speed with this configuration, Im asking
> this to you because you can get a lot better performance with your disks
> than I do, and there its maybe some tweaking that Im not aware of.
> 
> # dd if=/dev/da0s1 of=/dev/null bs=40960k count=10
> 10+0 records in
> 10+0 records out
> 419430400 bytes transferred in 71.546849 secs (5862318 bytes/sec)
> 
> systat -iostat shows 2950 tps for this disk top during this test.
> 
> The disks have softupdates enabled, here its a dmesg of the system:
> 
> Copyright (c) 1992-1999 FreeBSD Inc.
> Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
>  The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
> FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE #7: Tue Feb 22 13:33:21 GMT 2000
>     root@cache.megared.net.mx:/usr/src/sys/compile/kernel
> Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
> CPU: Pentium III (686-class CPU)
>   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x673  Stepping = 3
> 
> Features=0x383fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,
> CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,<b25>>
> real memory  = 805306368 (786432K bytes)
> avail memory = 780263424 (761976K bytes)
> Programming 24 pins in IOAPIC #0
> FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor motherboard
>  cpu0 (BSP): apic id:  1, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000
>  cpu1 (AP):  apic id:  0, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000
>  io0 (APIC): apic id: 14, version: 0x00170011, at 0xfec00000
> Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc0263000.
> Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
> Probing for devices on PCI bus 0:
> chip0: <Host to PCI bridge (vendor=1166 device=0007)> rev 0x04 on pci0.0.0
> chip1: <Ross (?) host to PCI bridge> rev 0x02 on pci0.0.1
> ahc0: <Adaptec aic7895 Ultra SCSI adapter> rev 0x04 int a irq 11 on pci0.6.0
> ahc0: aic7895 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs
> ahc1: <Adaptec aic7895 Ultra SCSI adapter> rev 0x04 int b irq 15 on pci0.6.1
> ahc1: aic7895 Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs
> lnc1: <PCNet/PCI Ethernet adapter> rev 0x36 int a irq 10 on pci0.9.0
> lnc1: PCnet-FAST+ address 00:06:29:50:fe:37
> vga0: <S3 Trio 64 graphics accelerator> rev 0x16 int a irq 9 on pci0.10.0
> chip2: <PCI to ISA bridge (vendor=1166 device=0200)> rev 0x4d on pci0.15.0
> ide_pci0: <PCI IDE controller (busmaster capable)> rev 0x4a int a irq 10 on
> pci0.15.1
> Probing for devices on PCI bus 1:
> Probing for devices on PCI bus 2:
> Probing for devices on the ISA bus:
> sc0 on isa
> sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0>
> atkbdc0 at 0x60-0x6f on motherboard
> atkbd0 irq 1 on isa
> psm0 irq 12 on isa
> psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0
> sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa
> sio0: type 16550A
> sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa
> sio1: type 16550A
> fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa
> fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
> fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in
> wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa
> wdc0: unit 0 (atapi): <CRD-8322B/1.07>, removable, accel, dma, iordis
> acd0: drive speed 5500KB/sec, 128KB cache
> acd0: supported read types: CD-R, CD-RW, CD-DA, packet track
> acd0: Audio: play, 255 volume levels
> acd0: Mechanism: ejectable tray
> acd0: Medium: no/blank disc inside, unlocked, lock protected
> lnc0 not found at 0x280
> vga0 at 0x3b0-0x3df maddr 0xa0000 msize 131072 on isa
> npx0 on motherboard
> npx0: INT 16 interface
> APIC_IO: Testing 8254 interrupt delivery
> APIC_IO: routing 8254 via pin 2
> IP packet filtering initialized, divert disabled, rule-based forwarding
> enabled, default to accept, logging disabled
> Waiting 10 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
> SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
> sa0 at ahc1 bus 0 target 6 lun 0
> sa0: <ARCHIVE Python 04106-XXX 735E> Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2
> device
> sa0: 5.000MB/s transfers (5.000MHz, offset 15)
> pass6 at ahc1 bus 0 target 14 lun 0
> pass6: <SDR GEM200 2> Fixed Processor SCSI-2 device
> pass6: 3.300MB/s transfers
> da0 at ahc1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> da0: <IBM-PSG DMVS09D       !# 0180> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device
> da0: 11.626MB/s transfers (5.813MHz, offset 8, 16bit), Tagged Queueing
> Enabled
> da0: 8678MB (17774160 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1106C)
> da4 at ahc1 bus 0 target 4 lun 0
> da4: <IBM-PSG DMVS09D       !# 0180> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device
> da4: 11.626MB/s transfers (5.813MHz, offset 8, 16bit), Tagged Queueing
> Enabled
> da4: 8678MB (17774160 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1106C)
> da3 at ahc1 bus 0 target 3 lun 0
> da3: <IBM-PSG ST39103LC     !# B222> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
> da3: 11.626MB/s transfers (5.813MHz, offset 8, 16bit), Tagged Queueing
> Enabled
> da3: 8678MB (17774160 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1106C)
> da2 at ahc1 bus 0 target 2 lun 0
> da2: <IBM-PSG ST39103LC     !# B222> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
> da2: 11.626MB/s transfers (5.813MHz, offset 8, 16bit), Tagged Queueing
> Enabled
> da2: 8678MB (17774160 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1106C)
> da1 at ahc1 bus 0 target 1 lun 0
> da1: <IBM-PSG ST39103LC     !# B222> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
> da1: 11.626MB/s transfers (5.813MHz, offset 8, 16bit), Tagged Queueing
> Enabled
> da1: 8678MB (17774160 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1106C)
> changing root device to da0s1a
> 
> If you think Im doing something wrong, or maybe the disks are not what I
> think they are, or the ahc driver its limiting the speed, or the aic7895
> embedded card its limiting the speed, or something else, I would apreciate
> any observation you can give me.
> 
> P.S. Im not copying to current, because its not running current at the
> moment, Im copying to questions.
> 
> Thanks in Advance
> 
> Syncerely
> Ales
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