Re: Poor SCSI drive performance FIXED on SMP machine, 2.2.16

2001-01-29 Thread paradox3
Thanks! I have added a terminator to the SCSI bus and also turned on TCQ and now I can write out 100 MB in 10 seconds (as opposed to several minutes) Regards, Para-dox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Original Message - From: "Trevor Hemsley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "parado

Re: Poor SCSI drive performance on SMP machine, 2.2.16

2001-01-28 Thread paradox3
Here is the output from dmesg. How do I tell if it is improperly terminated? Thanks, Para-dox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Original Message - From: "Michael Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 11:12 PM Subject: Re: Poor SCSI drive performance on

Re: Poor SCSI drive performance on SMP machine, 2.2.16

2001-01-28 Thread paradox3
> It sounds to me like you have a SCSI bus problem. Have you checked > termination? Cable quality? Cable lengths? Forgive me, I'm rather ignorant of SCSI hardware.All that I have is a cable (appears to be good quality, came with motherboard) about 60 centimeters long going from the motherboar

Re: Poor SCSI drive performance on SMP machine, 2.2.16

2001-01-28 Thread paradox3
Sorry, forget this last email. Here is hdparm output. hdparm

Re: Poor SCSI drive performance on SMP machine, 2.2.16

2001-01-28 Thread paradox3
I did this: date dd if=/dev/zero of=TESTFILE bs=1024 count=102400 date sync date and I gave the time differences from the first to the last timestamp. Regards, Para-dox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Original Message - From: "Bruce Harada" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: &q

Re: Poor SCSI drive performance on SMP machine, 2.2.16

2001-01-28 Thread paradox3
I don't get any messages relating to the drives in any syslog output. - Original Message - From: "Bruce Harada" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "paradox3" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, Janu

Poor SCSI drive performance on SMP machine, 2.2.16

2001-01-27 Thread paradox3
I have an SMP machine (dual PII 400s) running 2.2.16 with one 10,000 RPM IBM 10 GB SCSI drive (AIC 7890 on motherboard, using aic7xxx.o), and four various IDE drives. The SCSI drive performs the worst. In tests of writing 100 MB and sync'ing, one of my IDE drives takes 31 seconds. The SCSI drive (

*Very* weird behavior from 2.2.14

2001-01-14 Thread paradox3
My machine is/has: > Linux 2.2.14 > Red Hat 6.2 > Two PII 400 Mhz processors, but the kernel doesn't currently have SMP support compiled in > 256 MB RAM > Two ethernet cards using PCI NE2000 (ne2k-pci.c), vpre-1.00e 5/27/99 > One SCSI hard drive (boot, using aic7xxx.o), and four IDE drives. > Upti