Re: dd(1) performance when copiing a disk to another

2005-10-02 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "Arne Wörner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> That seems to be 2 or about 2 times faster than disc->disc transfer... But still slower, than I would have expected... SATA150 sounds like the drive can do 150MB/sec... LOL, you might want to read up on what SATA150 means. In

Re: dd(1) performance when copiing a disk to another

2005-10-02 Thread Eric Anderson
Arne Wörner wrote: Hi! --- Patrick Proniewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can u find out, if DMA transfers are enabled for those discs? What does dmesg say? see end of mail for full dmesg output, Looks good... :-)) But I never saw FBSD's kernel messages about SATA drives... ;-) Maybe at

Re: dd(1) performance when copiing a disk to another

2005-10-02 Thread W�rner
Hi! --- Patrick Proniewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can u find out, if DMA transfers are enabled for those discs? > > What does dmesg say? > > see end of mail for full dmesg output, > Looks good... :-)) But I never saw FBSD's kernel messages about SATA drives... ;-) > > Maybe atacontrol(8)

Re: dd(1) performance when copiing a disk to another

2005-10-02 Thread Patrick Proniewski
Hi, Can u find out, if DMA transfers are enabled for those discs? What does dmesg say? see end of mail for full dmesg output, What does "sysctl hw.ata.ata_dma" say? hw.ata.ata_dma: 1 Maybe atacontrol(8) says something useful about SATA discs, too (e. g. atacontrol mode 0)? # atacontr

Re: dd(1) performance when copiing a disk to another

2005-10-02 Thread W�rner
--- Steven Hartland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: "Patrick Proniewski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> # dd if=/dev/ad4 of=/dev/ad6 bs=1m >> >> It yields to poor performances: >> > That's actually pretty good for a sustained read / write on a > single disk. > Does somebody know, why this is "pretty go

Re: dd(1) performance when copiing a disk to another

2005-10-02 Thread Steven Hartland
That's actually pretty good for a sustained read / write on a single disk. Steve - Original Message - From: "Patrick Proniewski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 3:57 PM Subject: dd(1) performance when copiing a disk to another Hi, (carte mère supermicro chi

dd(1) performance when copiing a disk to another

2005-10-02 Thread Patrick Proniewski
Hi, (carte mère supermicro chip SATA Intel 6300ESB) I run FreeBSD 5.4 on a PIV 3GHz (SuperMicro motherboard, Intel SATA 6300ESB chipset) with 2 SATA HDD. I'm in the process to duplicate the boot HDD to the second HDD. I run dd for that: # dd if=/dev/ad4 of=/dev/ad6 bs=1m It yields to poor