Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> Concurrent hdparm -t, like
> 
> hdparm -t /dev/sdd & hdparm -t /dev/sde & hdparm -t /dev/sdf & hdparm -t
> /dev/sdg & sleep 20
> 
> (and from hdparm output & visually confirmed that all activity LEDs go
> on & off simultaneously)

Not sure whether it matters but 'hdparm' tests are fairly short.  You
can probably get more reliable result using dd with direct flag specified.

> So NCQ should not be able to show any (definitely not huge) benefits,
> but there should not be any reason to not get 4x 1 drive speed as long
> as neither PMP link nor PCI-X limits are hit.

As said before, 3124/32 hardware seems to have limitations in transfer
rate it can reach.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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