Re: Best OS & Configuration for Dual Xeon w/4GB &

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On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 07:25:07AM -0800, Luke Lonergan wrote:
> Jim,
> 
> On 3/21/06 3:49 AM, "Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > No, I don't know why the transfer rates for the mirror are 1/2 that as the raw
> > device. :(
> 
> Well - lessee.  Would those drives be attached to a Silicon Image (SII) SATA
> controller?  A Highpoint?
> 
> I found in testing about 2 years ago that under Linux (looks like you're
> BSD), most SATA controllers other than the Intel PIIX are horribly broken
> from a performance standpoint, probably due to bad drivers but I'm not sure.
> 
> Now I think whatever is commonly used by Nforce 4 implementations seems to
> work ok, but we don't count on them for RAID configurations yet.

atapci1: <nVidia nForce4 SATA150 controller>

And note that this is using FreeBSD gmirror, not the built-in raid
controller.
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