[Ming, could you trim quoted material down a bit more, and leave a blank line between quoted material and your new text? Thanks.] Ming Zhang <mingz@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 13:54 -0400, Dan Christensen wrote: >> >> Yes, there will be a seek, or internal drive readahead, so each drive >> will operate at around 75% efficiency. But since that shouldn't >> affect bus/controller traffic, I still would expect to get over >> 100MB/s with my hardware. > > agree. but what if your controller is a bottleneck? u need to have > another card to find out. The controller and/or bus *is* the bottleneck, but I've already shown that I can get 106MB/s through them. Dan - 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