From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jay Strauss Subject: Re: Raid 1 install revealed poor HD performance (I think) Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 18:00:26 -0500 Message-ID: <428A778A.9020209@heyjay.com> References: <428A09A3.9000802@heyjay.com> <428A1924.8030801@heyjay.com> <428A2133.4080202@h3c.com> <428A594E.5080207@heyjay.com> <428A59F9.5050908@h3c.com> <428A6D27.7070703@medien.uni-weimar.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <428A6D27.7070703@medien.uni-weimar.de> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Tobias Hofmann Cc: Mike Hardy , Gordon Henderson , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Tobias Hofmann wrote: > On 17.05.2005 22:54, Mike Hardy wrote: > > [...] > >> That's fine-grained tuning mostly though, and not really on topic for >> you as it appears you have something entirely different going on. What >> exactly is going on, I must admit, I don't know. :-/ > > > > Well, let's find out then, no? ;) > > Jay, you said it yourself - Knoppix seems to be setting something > different than Sarge. I am not very familiar with both, but doing a > lspci on both (just in case they "see" something different) and > comparing, like Gordon suggested, the output of dmesg | less (or a less > /var/log/dmesg) on both systems might give you an idea where things > start to go differently. > > I would look for differences in the discovery of (the) > ide-controller(s), and how the HDs are discovered/treated. > > For completeness' sake, the kernel version of each try could give the > experts an idea of differences I am not aware of. > > I am sure to have forgotten something here, but for starters, it might > work. > > Just my 2c, good luck, tobi... ;) Ok :), when I get home I'll be doing everything everyone has asked It's a drag booting knoppix on this machine, it takes forever Jay