Re: Poor SCSI drive performance on SMP machine, 2.2.16

2001-01-29 Thread Johan Kullstam
he hard drive in the middle somewhere. see http://www.scsifaq.org/> for more information. > Thanks, Para-dox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > > > - Original Message - > From: "Michael Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent:

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 SCS

Re: Poor SCSI drive performance on SMP machine, 2.2.16

2001-01-28 Thread Johan Kullstam
ing the drive in synchronous ultra wide mode? is you termination good? > Regards, Para-dox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > > - Original Message - > From: "Bruce Harada" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "paradox3" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[

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
uot;paradox3" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 2:31 PM Subject: Re: Poor SCSI drive performance on SMP machine, 2.2.16 > > Hm. As a point of comparison, I use a similar system to yours (full SCSI, > though, no IDE) and I can copy a 100M

Re: Poor SCSI drive performance on SMP machine, 2.2.16

2001-01-28 Thread Bruce Harada
Hm. As a point of comparison, I use a similar system to yours (full SCSI, though, no IDE) and I can copy a 100MB file from disk-to-disk, or on the same disk, in around 13 seconds. Where are you copying to the SCSI drive from - the same drive, an IDE disk, CDROM? If IDE, what are its particulars?

Re: Poor SCSI drive performance on SMP machine, 2.2.16

2001-01-28 Thread paradox3
ary 28, 2001 3:40 AM Subject: Re: Poor SCSI drive performance on SMP machine, 2.2.16 > > Hi. > > Do you get messages like the ones below in /var/log/messages? > > sym53c875-0-<0,0>: QUEUE FULL! 8 busy, 7 disconnected CCBs > sym53c875-0-<0,0>: tagged command queue de

Re: Poor SCSI drive performance on SMP machine, 2.2.16

2001-01-28 Thread GĂ©rard Roudier
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, paradox3 wrote: > 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 o

Re: Poor SCSI drive performance on SMP machine, 2.2.16

2001-01-28 Thread Bruce Harada
Hi. Do you get messages like the ones below in /var/log/messages? sym53c875-0-<0,0>: QUEUE FULL! 8 busy, 7 disconnected CCBs sym53c875-0-<0,0>: tagged command queue depth set to 7 In fact, do you get any messages in your log files that look like they might be related? -- Bruce Harada [EMA

Re: Poor SCSI drive performance on SMP machine, 2.2.16

2001-01-27 Thread Andre Hedrick
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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 (