Re: SATA is to slow comparing with linux

2009-09-30 Thread O. Hartmann
Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 08:05:32PM +0200, Oliver Lehmann wrote: >> Andriy Gapon wrote: >> >>> What mode do you have set for your controllers in BIOS? >>> AHCI or IDE/Legacy/etc? >> Yeah I read about this too but my BIOS offers only "RAID" and "SATA" - >> tried both so I think

Re: SATA is to slow comparing with linux

2009-09-30 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 08:05:32PM +0200, Oliver Lehmann wrote: > Andriy Gapon wrote: > > > What mode do you have set for your controllers in BIOS? > > AHCI or IDE/Legacy/etc? > > Yeah I read about this too but my BIOS offers only "RAID" and "SATA" - > tried both so I think AHCI is just not suppo

Re: SATA is to slow comparing with linux

2009-09-30 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 30/09/2009 19:47 Oliver Lehmann said the following: > Robert Noland wrote: > >> I would also be curious how that ahci driver from -CURRENT is performing >> relative to other implementations. > > I tried 8.0-RC1-i386.iso but the ahci driver didn't picked up my promise > nor my VIA controller. S

Re: SATA is to slow comparing with linux

2009-09-30 Thread Oliver Lehmann
Andriy Gapon wrote: > What mode do you have set for your controllers in BIOS? > AHCI or IDE/Legacy/etc? Yeah I read about this too but my BIOS offers only "RAID" and "SATA" - tried both so I think AHCI is just not supported on my K8T800Pro chipset for the SATA controller. -- Oliver Lehmann h

Re: SATA is to slow comparing with linux

2009-09-30 Thread Oliver Lehmann
Robert Noland wrote: > I would also be curious how that ahci driver from -CURRENT is performing > relative to other implementations. I tried 8.0-RC1-i386.iso but the ahci driver didn't picked up my promise nor my VIA controller. So all the numbers now for the "old" ata driver. CPU: AMD Athlon(tm

Re: SATA is to slow comparing with linux

2009-09-30 Thread Bruce Cran
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:56:51 -0500 Robert Noland wrote: > On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 09:53 +0200, Oliver Lehmann wrote: > > Daniel O'Connor writes: > > > > > In the end I got a PCI Silicon Image 3114 based controller and it > > > worked fine. > > > > I thought about getting a controller with a SiL-

Re: SATA is to slow comparing with linux

2009-09-30 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 09:10 AM 9/30/2009, Bruce Cran wrote: I ran the tiobench test on -CURRENT a few days ago and the ahci driver showed an improvement in latency over the ata driver; I didn't test transfer rates though. I was running the AHCI driver on the freebsd-current tinderbox for 3 weeks with very good

Re: SATA is to slow comparing with linux

2009-09-30 Thread Robert Noland
On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 13:17 +0200, Oliver Lehmann wrote: > Robert Noland writes: > > > On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 09:53 +0200, Oliver Lehmann wrote: > >> I got a Promise SATA300 TX2plus instead. I'll rune some tests with later > >> (when I'm back home ;)) > > > > I would also be curious how that ahc

Re: SATA is to slow comparing with linux

2009-09-30 Thread Oliver Lehmann
Robert Noland writes: On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 09:53 +0200, Oliver Lehmann wrote: I got a Promise SATA300 TX2plus instead. I'll rune some tests with later (when I'm back home ;)) I would also be curious how that ahci driver from -CURRENT is performing relative to other implementations. So ther

Re: SATA is to slow comparing with linux

2009-09-30 Thread Robert Noland
On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 09:53 +0200, Oliver Lehmann wrote: > Daniel O'Connor writes: > > > In the end I got a PCI Silicon Image 3114 based controller and it worked > > fine. > > I thought about getting a controller with a SiL-Chil too because they are > kinda cheap and another system I intend to

Re: SATA is to slow comparing with linux

2009-09-30 Thread Oliver Lehmann
Daniel O'Connor writes: In the end I got a PCI Silicon Image 3114 based controller and it worked fine. I thought about getting a controller with a SiL-Chil too because they are kinda cheap and another system I intend to use with SATA harddisks has no SATA on-board. But then I searched throug