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Date:      Thu, 28 Oct 2004 09:02:51 -0300
From:      "Giovanni P. Tirloni" <gpt@tirloni.org>
To:        Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Serial ATA RAID Controllers (5.x)
Message-ID:  <4180DFEB.901@tirloni.org>
In-Reply-To: <20041027132604.J2588@shell.inch.com>
References:  <20041027040910.YUGS11892.out008.verizon.net@STACY> <20041027132604.J2588@shell.inch.com>

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Charles Sprickman wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Steve wrote:
> 
> 
>>3ware 9xxx series is much better than adaptec,
>>Adaptec will not work with dbsd without some tweaking, 3ware will work
>>flawlessly.
> 
> 
> Are you running 4.x or 5.x?

  I've been testing 5.3-BETA7 with an Intel SE7210TP1-E motherboard. 
It has Adaptec HostRAID and I'm using two Seagate 160GB SATA drives. 
So far things are working as expected.

  I had to create the RAID 1 array with atacontrol before installing 
FreeBSD. Below is the output of diskinfo -t /dev/ar0 with the default 
GENERIC kernel. I've done no tuning yet.

/dev/ar0
         512             # sectorsize
         160041853440    # mediasize in bytes (149G)
         312581745       # mediasize in sectors
         19457           # Cylinders according to firmware.
         255             # Heads according to firmware.
         63              # Sectors according to firmware.

Seek times:
   Full stroke:      250 iter in   1.515921 sec =    6.064 msec
   Half stroke:      250 iter in   1.511172 sec =    6.045 msec
   Quarter stroke:   500 iter in   2.999155 sec =    5.998 msec
   Short forward:    400 iter in   2.200966 sec =    5.502 msec
   Short backward:   400 iter in   1.902325 sec =    4.756 msec
   Seq outer:       2048 iter in   0.482156 sec =    0.235 msec
   Seq inner:       2048 iter in   0.490824 sec =    0.240 msec
Transfer rates:
   outside:       102400 kbytes in   1.803000 sec =    56794 kbytes/sec
   middle:        102400 kbytes in   2.151312 sec =    47599 kbytes/sec
   inside:        102400 kbytes in   3.436182 sec =    29801 kbytes/sec

-- 
Giovanni P. Tirloni



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