Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 19:48:56 -0500 From: Gerd Knops <gerti@bitart.com> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>, Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE drives to avoid ? [was : Re: ATA problems (rehashed)] Message-ID: <20001026004856.1660.qmail@camelot.bitart.com> In-Reply-To: <200010260037.e9Q0bGS54307@grumpy.dyndns.org> References: <200010260037.e9Q0bGS54307@grumpy.dyndns.org>
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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. > > Ditto. This is a system which has me reconsidering the wisdom of SCSI > for my needs: > > CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (501.14-MHz 686-class CPU) > Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x673 Stepping = 3 > Features=0x383f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT, > PSE36,MMX,FXSR,XMM> real memory = 134201344 (131056K bytes) > avail memory = 127221760 (124240K bytes) > [...] > ad0: 14649MB <IBM-DTLA-307015> [29765/16/63] at ata0-master using > UDMA33 > > Have seen bonnie report over 22 MB/sec on that drive and system. > [...] With these drives and a slightly patched ATA driver (to recognize the onboard promise chipset) ad4: 29314MB <IBM-DTLA-307030> [59560/16/63] at ata2-master using UDMA100 ad6: 29314MB <IBM-DTLA-307030> [59560/16/63] at ata3-master using UDMA100 I get about 35 MB/sec. Gerd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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