Re: Extremely slow write speeds to disk : FreeBSD 7.1 and Dell SAS 6/iR Adapter

2009-02-12 Thread Richard Tector
Bradley Radjoo wrote: Thanks very much Richard, (They are 2 X 73Gig Ultra 320 scsi SAS drives) No idea then, sorry. But I do have 3 R200's which also use the SAS6 controller due to arrive tomorrow, so I'll see what results I get. Richard ___ freebs

Re: Extremely slow write speeds to disk : FreeBSD 7.1 and Dell SAS 6/iR Adapter

2009-02-12 Thread Richard Tector
O. Hartmann wrote: When I read this posting I was quite happy having found a possible solution, but I can't find the above mentioned OID, FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT/amd64 (running on this box) shows only "hw.ata.wc: 1" as a relevant OID. No hw.mpt.XXX OIDs anywere. This is the part from DMESG reflecti

Re: Extremely slow write speeds to disk : FreeBSD 7.1 and Dell SAS 6/iR Adapter

2009-02-12 Thread Richard Tector
Bradley Radjoo wrote: Greetings, Please can you assist. I have attempted most of the popular BSD Variants such as NetBSD, Open BSD, FreeBSD... The only distrubution that seems to work on the is Dell SAS 6/iR Adapter is FreeBSD 7.1 Firmware version & date : 9/29/2008 00.25.47.00 But the issue i

Re: crontab prob

2005-10-20 Thread Richard Tector
eirini wrote: shouldn't I had posted this in this list? If not could you tell me which would be the proper mailing list? Thank you :) Spen freebsd-questions@ would have been a better choice. Read http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL for a

RE: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-10-19 Thread Richard Tector
I've got a system here running 6.0-RC1 with the 8 port PCI-X Areca card and a 7 disk RAID5 array of 320GB Western Digital disks. I have to agree with Mike here, they are indeed extremely fast and I can't say I've ever had any issues with it. Recommended. However, I haven't had much cause to use th