> I meant you do not allocate the entire disk per raidset, which may alter > performance numbers. No, that would be silly. It does lower the average performance of the large RAID-5 area, but I don't know how ext3fs is allocating the blocks anyway, so > 04:00.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3132 Serial ATA Raid II Controller (rev 01) > I assume you mean 3132 right? Yes; did I mistype? 02:00.0 Mass storage controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3132 Serial ATA Raid II Controller (rev 01) 03:00.0 Mass storage controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3132 Serial ATA Raid II Controller (rev 01) 04:00.0 Mass storage controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3132 Serial ATA Raid II Controller (rev 01) > I also have 6 seagates, I'd need to run one > of these tests on them as well, also you took the micro jumper off the > Seagate 400s in the back as well right? Um... no, I don't remember doing anything like that. What micro jumper? It's been a while, but I just double-checked the drive manual and it doesn't mention any jumpers. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html