On Sun, 8 Aug 2004, Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Sat, 7 Aug 2004, Eli Cantu wrote: > > > (watching a raid 5 array, composed of five 250gb disks, resyncing...to > > be completed 16 hours from now...) > > One thing to check (if it's IDE drives) is that they are working in DMA > mode - use hdparm /dev/hda, etc. to check and force DMA if necessary > (although you might need to re-compile your kernel to include the correct > drivers for your IDE hardware) > > It'll still take a long time with 250GB drives, though. 16 hours seems kind of long. I've recently been dealing with a 6 200gb drive (SATA) sw RAID5, and resyncs took around 3 hours on an otherwise totally idle P4 2.4ghz. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis | I route Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
