Re: Promise UDMA-66 RAID- Help!

1999-08-14 Thread D. Carlos Knowlton
Jakob Osterngaard wrote: [snip] Was 19MB/s from a RAID ? If so, how many disks ? What RAID configuration ? How did you measure it ? I'm running RAID level 5 on four WD Caviar 20.4GB U66 drives. 19MB/s is what I get when I do a "hdparm -t /dev/md0". I also tried cp'ing a 1GB file to

Re: Promise UDMA-66 RAID- Help!

1999-08-12 Thread Jan Edler
With 2.2.10 + a recent uniform ide patch, I don't have to do anything with hdparm to get udma-66 working with a Promise Ultra66 card. The kernel reports something like this at boot time: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.19 PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39

Promise UDMA-66 RAID- Help!

1999-08-11 Thread D. Carlos Knowlton
Hey guys, I have been trying for the past several months to get the full throughput that I'm supposed to be getting from my UDMA-66 hard drives, but - try as I might - I can only get sustained reads of 19MB/s max. I am using a promise Ultra66 controller with four 20.4GB U-ATA-66 WD Caviar