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Date:      Fri, 19 Feb 1999 11:05:41 +0100
From:      sthaug@nethelp.no
To:        jlemon@americantv.com
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: slow disk performance
Message-ID:  <18942.919418741@verdi.nethelp.no>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 18 Feb 1999 21:57:21 -0600"
References:  <19990218215721.55546@right.PCS>

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>   I have a system with the following:
> 
> ahc0: <Adaptec aic7880 Ultra SCSI adapter> rev 0x01 int a irq 11 on pci0.6.0
> ahc0: aic7880 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs
> da1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0
> da1: <Quantum XP32150W L915> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device 
> da1: 20.0MB/s transfers (10.0MHz, offset 8, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled
> da1: 2050MB (4199760 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 261C)
> da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> da0: <IBM DCAS-34330W S65A> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device 
> da0: 40.0MB/s transfers (20.0MHz, offset 8, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled
> da0: 4134MB (8467200 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 527C)
> 
> 
> Basically, an ASUS motherboard with an onboard Adaptec, along with 
> two 7200 rpm disks.

The DCAS-34330W is a 5400 RPM disk.

> However, I can't seem to get more than 6MB/sec
> out of the drives, when doing sequential reads or writes:

I get around 7.5 MB/s reading from the raw device on my DCAS-34330W, using
an NCR875 based controller (Tekram). Somewhat less when writing.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no


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