On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 05:50:30PM -0500, Max TenEyck Woodbury wrote: > Jakob Østergaard wrote: > > > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 07:47:06PM +0100, Jakob Østergaard wrote: > > ... > > > If you use multiple partitions on the disks, the transfer time > > > will significantly drop (because of massive seeking) - and this > > > could explain why the cable failure doesn't show up - I guess. > > > > s/transfer time/transfer rate/ > > > > -- > > This is a little puzzling. You'd expect problems with high > transfer rates, not low, if it was a cable problem. Yes. (By "transfer rate" I mean bus utilization, not bus clock). Utilizing the bus at 10% versus utilizing it at 100% would cause fewer problems. Doesn't that sound plausible ? -- ................................................................ : jakob@unthought.net : And I see the elder races, : :.........................: putrid forms of man : : Jakob Østergaard : See him rise and claim the earth, : : OZ9ABN : his downfall is at hand. : :.........................:............{Konkhra}...............: - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html