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Date:      Sat, 19 May 2001 17:02:20 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
To:        achilov@granch.ru
Cc:        valgog@biofrontera.de, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ATA driver on 4.3 is too slow
Message-ID:  <200105191503.f4JF35V49854@freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <01051921510901.04398@sentry.granch.com> "from Rashid N. Achilov at May 19, 2001 09:51:09 pm"

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It seems Rashid N. Achilov wrote:
> On Thursday 17 May 2001 18:33, S?ren Schmidt wrote:
> > It seems valgog@biofrontera.de wrote:
> >
> > Most of the impact is due to FreeBSD now shipping with Write Caching
> > off as default (see man ata for details), that will hurt even if
> > you run with softupdates. If you dont care about possible dataloss
> > at power failures you can enable WC and get your performance back...
> 
> sysctl -w hw.ata.wc=1
> sysctl: oid 'hw.ata.wc' is read only

Does that mean it still performs badly ? you give no info here...

If so, its hardly the ATA driver thats the problem, you could try
that by doing a 'dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/null bs=1m count=1000'
and see if the transfer rate is what the drive can deliver. If
so you have to look somewhere other than the ATA subsystem.

-Søren

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