Re: IDE -- mount partitions for better performance

2011-03-15 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 14 March 2011 20:00, freebsd_u...@guice.ath.cx wrote: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Guidance with the following: We are limited to Support for ATA-100/66/33 IDE and ATAPI compliant devices.  With that said, we have our atapi/33 optical on a add in controller (PCI) and are seeking to

Re: IDE -- mount partitions for better performance

2011-03-15 Thread freebsd_user
Annotated below ... Hi, On Tuesday 15 March 2011 07:00:30 freebsd_u...@guice.ath.cx wrote: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Guidance with the following: We are limited to Support for ATA-100/66/33 IDE and ATAPI compliant devices. With that said, we have our atapi/33 optical on a add in

Re: IDE -- mount partitions for better performance

2011-03-15 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:17 PM, freebsd_u...@guice.ath.cx wrote: Annotated below ... Hi, On Tuesday 15 March 2011 07:00:30 freebsd_u...@guice.ath.cx wrote: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Guidance with the following: We are limited to Support for ATA-100/66/33 IDE and ATAPI

Re: IDE -- mount partitions for better performance

2011-03-15 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:17:34 -0400, freebsd_u...@guice.ath.cx wrote: did I get it right? You have four hard disks? Yes, four separate HDD's I assume you have two on each of the two lines: ad0 = primary master ad1 = primary slave ad2 = secondary master ad3

Re: IDE -- mount partitions for better performance

2011-03-15 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: Keep in mind that performance across ad0 and ad2 is best. Masters are always good. Slaves are slower. Using primary and secondary in parallel works good, working on a master and a slave simultanously is worse. Your

Re: IDE -- mount partitions for better performance

2011-03-15 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:07:20 -0500, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: Your statement about master being faster than a slave is simply not true for almost every scenario when using devices with same capabilites. All master/slave really controls is enumeration, and shouldn't effect

IDE -- mount partitions for better performance

2011-03-14 Thread freebsd_user
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Guidance with the following: We are limited to Support for ATA-100/66/33 IDE and ATAPI compliant devices. With that said, we have our atapi/33 optical on a add in controller (PCI) and are seeking to place four HDD’s on the main boards controllers. Our dilemma is

Re: IDE -- mount partitions for better performance

2011-03-14 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tuesday 15 March 2011 07:00:30 freebsd_u...@guice.ath.cx wrote: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Guidance with the following: We are limited to Support for ATA-100/66/33 IDE and ATAPI compliant devices. With that said, we have our atapi/33 optical on a add in controller (PCI) and