Re: rackmountable cases as well as RAID5 performance comparisson UDMA33 vs 66...

2000-01-24 Thread Jan Edler
We set up some machines pretty much the same as you: rackmount, with an ASUS P3B-F mainboard, 4 promise ultra-66 cards, and 8 Seagate ST328040A drives within hot-swap boxes. We used a Sliger case (C489-0814-PX-BK), in which everything fits, but it is a bit tight to route the cables, even using

Re: rackmountable cases as well as RAID5 performance comparisson UDMA33 vs 66...

2000-01-24 Thread Glenn McGrath
remo strotkamp wrote: Hi raider out there, We kept getting error messages under 'heavy' load ( RAID resync, e2fsck, copying a 2GB directory tree..) which looked as follows: Jan 21 16:42:45 freshkills kernel: hdk: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Jan 21 16:42:45

Re: rackmountable cases as well as RAID5 performance comparisson UDMA33 vs 66...

2000-01-24 Thread Jan Edler
On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 02:16:58PM +, Glenn McGrath wrote: I have been having these sorts of problems for a fair while, my opinon (and thats all it is) is that raid cant handle much more than 40MB/s, irespective of your setup, i think theres some other limiting factor I've seen 60MB/s

Re: rackmountable cases as well as RAID5 performance comparisson UDMA33 vs 66...

2000-01-24 Thread remo strotkamp
Hi raiders again, I have been having these sorts of problems for a fair while, my opinon (and thats all it is) is that raid cant handle much more than 40MB/s, irespective of your setup, i think theres some other limiting factor Ive gotten ~35MB/s with 3 udma33 drives, each its own

rackmountable cases as well as RAID5 performance comparisson UDMA33 vs 66...

2000-01-23 Thread remo strotkamp
Hi raider out there, We have a fileserver with software RAID-5 here. It's a rackmountable case with 1 hardisk for the OS on one of the two onboard IDE controllers and 8 DNJA 20GB harddisk in CRU Dataport V cases connected to 4 Promise Ultra 66 cards (each has 2 buses). So we installed a RAID5