From: Hugo Mills <hugo-lkml@carfax.org.uk>
To: Patrick Petermair <kernel-ml@petermair.at>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Adaptec 1210SA SATA Controller Performance
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 16:06:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040224160611.GE18494@carfax.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <403B5B47.2030907@petermair.at>
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On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 03:10:15PM +0100, Patrick Petermair wrote:
> Yesterday I've setup a server with Adaptec's 1210SA SATA Controller and
> 2 SATA disks. According to the kernel changelog the controller is
> supported since 2.6.2
>
> I've installed Debian on an IDE disk, built a 2.6.3 kernel with
> CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_SIL, rebooted and the kernel detected the controller
> plus both SATA disks (sda, sdb). As the next step I wanted to create a
> software raid 1 with the 2 SATA disks. Because it took mdadm forever to
> finish, I checked /proc/mdstat and saw a progress bar with a rate of 12MB/s!
>
> Even my oldest IDE disk is faster than this. Is there a way to tweak the
> SATA controller/disk with some kernel-options or is the driver not
> providing more speed?
You don't say what make of disk these are. It may be that you've
fallen foul of the Seagate/SiI erratum, which (as far as I can tell)
still kills performance. I have a 120GiB Seagate disk attached to a
SiI3112 controller, and I'm lucky if I get 12MiB/s with the IDE-layer
driver. I haven't tried the libata driver yet.
I'm not too worried about that set-up, because I don't need massive
performance off that disk anyway, but something faster might be
nice. :)
Hugo.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-24 16:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-24 14:10 Patrick Petermair
2004-02-24 16:06 ` Hugo Mills [this message]
2004-02-26 8:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-02-28 4:27 ` Bob Glamm
2004-02-28 7:03 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-04 15:40 ` Patrick Petermair
2004-03-04 18:18 ` Hugo Mills
2004-02-26 9:14 Kyle Wong
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