Hi @all, it's my first mailt o this list so let me introduce myself. My name is Marcus Schwarz and I'm working for NWE a company which provides IT services and solutions for medium sized companys . At the moment I try to find the problem with a iscsi setup I use. The initiator setup : Asus P5Q Board Intel C2Quad 9550 4GB RAM Intel Pro 1000MT Gigabit NIC Windows 7 X64 HP Gigabit Switch The target setup : Fedora 15 X86_64 Kernel 2.6.40-4 (aka Kernel 3.0) scsi-target-utils 1.0.18-1 raid-5 setup with 4*2TB WD20EARS-Caviar green I can see all iscsi targets in Windows and connect to each of it without any problem. When I do a file transfer to one of those targets I get a write performance of about 10-12 MB/s . I'm using NO Jumbo-Frames That's how my targets.conf file looks like : ### begin of targets.conf file ### default-driver iscsi <target iqn.2011-08.com.somedomain.internal:storage.steam> backing-store /storage/iscsi/iscsi-steam lun 1 </target> InitialR2T Yes ImmediateData Yes ### end of targets.conf file ### That's how this target look like : ### begin of target ### Target 5: iqn.2011-08.com.somedomain.internal:storage.steam System information: Driver: iscsi State: ready I_T nexus information: I_T nexus: 5 Initiator: iqn.1991-05.com.microsoft:blackbird Connection: 1 IP Address: 192.168.216.2 LUN information: LUN: 0 Type: controller SCSI ID: IET 00050000 SCSI SN: beaf50 Size: 0 MB, Block size: 1 Online: Yes Removable media: No Readonly: No Backing store type: null Backing store path: None Backing store flags: LUN: 1 Type: disk SCSI ID: IET 00050001 SCSI SN: beaf51 Size: 209716 MB, Block size: 512 Online: Yes Removable media: No Readonly: No Backing store type: rdwr Backing store path: /storage/iscsi/iscsi-steam Backing store flags: Account information: ACL information: ALL ### end of target ### What seems wrong to me is the blocksize oft he LUN. It states "512" but the drives I use (WD20EARS) are using 4k Block sizes natively. So I tried to change the blocksize and according to the mailing list it should be possible but I can't find how. So maybe someone here can help me out on this or sees something obviously wrong in my setup. FYI I'm using samba on this server, too which gives me 60MB/s write and 75MB/s read from the same windows machine, so I'm pretty confident my general network setup is ok. Any help is greatly appreciated. Best regards Marcus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stgt" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html