From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 8 22:16:06 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C801106564A for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 22:16:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jose.amengual@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24EE18FC16 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 22:16:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm16 with SMTP id 16so6897046fxm.13 for ; Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:16:05 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type; bh=medwOdI/lvBq6oTuWRyVa8xK6hFjjVt7gbp9ouODkdw=; b=QqW/+aPO140Y8ThEEEddJypTtiDoQtEShKMY/NZt31FzQRM1dSzCKM4lJ8VFrhstYF FGZVrjL+uHZxhgLAfqQvHe6AIyJqugPhukvcfq6dRQ7nRW9fV/gi1FRvjsFVSFzsubXH OxizGSCd+sJzaTJ1+rMUkSRSDEM6f3+NlfOn8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; b=LHkBGv6jWxAlvGiP9I8jk2NBdrBp5PK2PktHZLS7paH4R7Rx6TiJhN12a9FI6D9OaG yxrvInGJi52UrAg4ikTzBC3binbpLVS1GomsxTgWBr0YwNgILMnPnltk1cCW/3+IZIgG htIp6/4a7lXDJlj0be6d+eHpuHibnZuYAl1Ys= Received: by 10.223.54.132 with SMTP id q4mr8344308fag.117.1297201805633; Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:50:05 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.74.141 with HTTP; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 13:49:45 -0800 (PST) From: Jose Amengual Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 13:49:45 -0800 Message-ID: To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Addonics SIS3124 Controller and T X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 22:16:06 -0000 Hi guys. I just recently bought this controller : http://www.addonics.com/products/host_controller/adsa3gpx8-4e.asp Plus : http://www.addonics.com/products/raid_tower/raid_rack.asp ( the one with 4esata connectors in the back) so I have a 8.1-RELEASE running and the controlled connected and the siis driver loaded plus 10 HDs installed on the raidrack each 5 is connected to a 5x1 port mutiplier and then to a esata. so here is the issue : 1.- I can see just only from ada0 to ada6 I don't see any other HDs. 2.- Performance is just 131 MBs per second as report from diskinfo -t superstorage1# diskinfo -t /dev/ada0 /dev/ada0 512 # sectorsize 1000204886016 # mediasize in bytes (932G) 1953525168 # mediasize in sectors 0 # stripesize 0 # stripeoffset 1938021 # Cylinders according to firmware. 16 # Heads according to firmware. 63 # Sectors according to firmware. WD-WCATR5253676 # Disk ident. Seek times: Full stroke: 250 iter in 5.055337 sec = 20.221 msec Half stroke: 250 iter in 3.685852 sec = 14.743 msec Quarter stroke: 500 iter in 5.924198 sec = 11.848 msec Short forward: 400 iter in 2.157650 sec = 5.394 msec Short backward: 400 iter in 1.785152 sec = 4.463 msec Seq outer: 2048 iter in 0.292870 sec = 0.143 msec Seq inner: 2048 iter in 0.232126 sec = 0.113 msec Transfer rates: outside: 102400 kbytes in 0.771598 sec = 132712 kbytes/sec middle: 102400 kbytes in 0.925421 sec = 110652 kbytes/sec inside: 102400 kbytes in 1.652984 sec = 61949 kbytes/sec it should be more ? 3.- I have two different system with same controller one is a dell 2850 and the other one is a supermicro server in both I can see only 7 HDs. Could be a problem with the driver ? So my idea was that to use this with ZFS and AOE so I can have a SAN for my servers but I need to get the best performance possible. I'm willing to buy another controller if is necessary, any recommendations ? ( no more than 700 US ) some additional info : siis0@pci0:9:0:0: class=0x018000 card=0x31241095 chip=0x31241095 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Silicon Image Inc (Was: CMD Technology Inc)' device = 'PCI-X to Serial ATA Controller (SiI 3124)' class = mass storage aac0@pci0:7:0:0: class=0x010400 card=0x02ca15d9 chip=0x02859005 rev=0x09 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Adaptec Inc' device = 'PCIX133 32/64bit (Adaptec 2410SA SATA RAID)' class = mass storage subclass = RAID Thanks.