From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 30 6:56:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from bbnrel4.net.external.hp.com (bbnrel4.net.external.hp.com [155.208.254.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E424B37B479 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 06:56:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from hpcpbla.bri.hp.com (hpcpbla.bri.hp.com [15.144.112.65]) by bbnrel4.net.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABF811E1A5; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 15:56:22 +0100 (MET) Received: from sse0691.bri.hp.com (sse0691.bri.hp.com [15.144.0.53]) by hpcpbla.bri.hp.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 SMKit7.0) with ESMTP id OAA02778; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:56:17 GMT Received: (from steve@localhost) by sse0691.bri.hp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA15517; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 15:00:26 GMT (envelope-from steve) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 15:00:26 +0000 From: Steve Roome To: David Kelly Cc: Soren Schmidt , Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE drives to avoid ? [was : Re: ATA problems (rehashed)] Message-ID: <20001030150026.B14579@moose.bri.hp.com> References: <200010260037.e9Q0bGS54307@grumpy.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <200010260037.e9Q0bGS54307@grumpy.dyndns.org>; from dkelly@hiwaay.net on Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 07:37:16PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 07:37:16PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: > Soren Schmidt writes: > > The only drives I can recommed are IBM's, but beware the new DTLA series > > are so fast that some old controllers can have problems with them. > Have seen bonnie report over 22 MB/sec on that drive and system. Then > again this second one is almost sad enough to be funny. OTOH it is > reliable: ad0: 73308MB [148945/16/63] at ata0-master using UDMA33 This is the new version, bonnie says : -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- --Random-- -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks--- Machine MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU 100 11187 81.0 20539 42.0 2821 10.5 7282 77.5 28337 63.3 94.9 2.1 Sadly it's bit of a junk old box that has this drive in, But these newer IBM drives are excellent, on a 3xRAM size file, iozone tells me: 14064030 bytes/second for writing the file 25977624 bytes/second for reading the file It's also 75% full, so with that performance I'll be buying more. (My experience with the previous IBM version (the 30GXP models) shows that write performance is almost identical to read performance for the first 75% of the drive, but drops to about half of the read performance by the last few blocks of the disk.) Also, I was under the impression that some of the large Maxtor drives were for a while recently, just rebadged OEM IBM disks. This disk is in a file server now though, so I can't test it out much more (on a better machine perhaps). Over 100BaseT it outperforms the 4 controller striped 8x9Gb LVD disks on the K-Class it's attached to. > Ditto. This is a system which has me reconsidering the wisdom of SCSI > for my needs: I was working with some 4Gb disk images (thank god FreeBSD handles large files, not enough OS's do that!) last night, on the older 30Gb IDE disk and although it is VERY fast, it doesn't cope as well as SCSI as far as parellelism. While making a backup of the diskimage to the same partition anything else I did on the machine was virtually impossible, i.e. reading the image for ls off the disk and running it took long enough for me to get bored and decide to make another cuppa. Then again, I've not tried the above with SCSI, but I have a feeling it would parellise better even if it performs slower for the same price. > the purchase of a DEC 21140 based 10/100 PCI card for $12 and cured I bought a dual 21140 (it's a J3514) for a HP K-Class for this project with this IDE disk in a PC. Check out the price on that, for what's effectively an ISA bus. We really are spoilt rotten with these PC prices. Steve Roome P.S. These are all my own views, nothing to do with any employer I may have had ever. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message