On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Jay Roberts wrote: > I just set up a new Raid5 array using 4 200GB disks on 2 controllers. I > created the array, and it begins to sync up, but it will not sync at > over 600Kb. It has been over 12 hours now, and the sync is only 7% done. > >From reading, I know that sync should only take a few hours, but at the > current rate mine will take 91 hours which seems like an insane amount > of time. I am looking for any advice on this. Details follow: You probably don't have DMA enabled on the controller. See what hdparm /dev/hde and for all the other drives you have gives. Do a crude speed test with hdparm -Tt /dev/hde too. You ought to get at least 45MB/sec on a modern IDE drive. You might have to build a custom kernel to get the right driver for the chipset. Gordon - 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
