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Date:      Thu, 31 Aug 2000 22:12:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@internetcds.com>
To:        John Lengeling <johnl@raccoon.com>
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Different init speeds of raid5 plex subdisks under vinum
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008312211230.12837-100000@schizo.cdsnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <39A21314.1107B6AD@raccoon.com>

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I reported this when using ATA drives a couple months ago.

It is trivially reproducible.  I wasn't even using vinum, it can be
reproduced with a script that starts up like 8 parallel newfs's on really
big drives.

The consensus was it was the scheduler, but nobody seemed to worried about
it.

On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, John Lengeling wrote:

> I created a raid5 plex under vinum using 3 drives.  These are supposed to be identical drives.  They are slightly different in size.
> 
> da2 at ahc0 bus 0 target 2 lun 0
> da2: <IBM DNES-318350W SA30> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device
> da2: 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 31, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled
> da2: 17501MB (35843670 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 2231C)
> da1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0
> da1: <IBM DNES-318350W SA60> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device
> da1: 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 31, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled
> da1: 17366MB (35566501 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 2213C)
> da3 at ahc0 bus 0 target 3 lun 0
> da3: <IBM DNES-318350W SA60> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device
> da3: 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 31, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled
> da3: 17366MB (35566501 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 2213C)
> 
> When I ran the vinum init command to initialize the plex, one of the drives da2 completed the initialization 3-4 times faster than da1 and da3.  Something like 20 minutes for da2 versus 60 minutes for da1/da3.  Both da1 and da3 initialized at the same rate.  Is this weird?  Did da3/da1 get transfers negotiated down to slower speeds?  Bad cabling?
> 
> Or is this normal?
> 
> johnl
> 
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