From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262529AbTJTKqo (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Oct 2003 06:46:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262531AbTJTKqo (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Oct 2003 06:46:44 -0400 Received: from louise.pinerecords.com ([213.168.176.16]:47010 "EHLO louise.pinerecords.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262529AbTJTKqm (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Oct 2003 06:46:42 -0400 Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 12:44:33 +0200 From: Tomas Szepe To: Torben Mathiasen Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFT][PATCH] fix ServerWorks PIO auto-tuning Message-ID: <20031020104433.GB28755@louise.pinerecords.com> References: <200310162344.09021.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> <20031018130234.GA28095@louise.pinerecords.com> <200310181745.41768.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> <20031020092445.GB1685@tmathiasen> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031020092445.GB1685@tmathiasen> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Oct-20 2003, Mon, 11:24 +0200 Torben Mathiasen wrote: > BTW Tomas, that drive you're adding to your ML350G2, is that just to have > a spare IDE disk drive? IIRC, the 350 is a SCSI system with only an ATAPI > cdrom drive. But I could be wrong. Yes, Torben, you are corrent, the IDE drive is just a spare used for doing nightly backups of the SCSI system partitions. We've been using 80GB/120GB WD drives in many OSB4/CSB5-based HP/Compaq systems (mostly this Proliant model, HP E800 and HP TC3100) with hand-enabled DMA and have so far had no problems. (Btw, this particular ML350G3 came with an add-on cciss hwraid card that seemed to exhibit extremely poor performance, so we attached all the SCSI drives directly to the onboard AIC7xxx and went for /dev/md*.) Thanks, -- Tomas Szepe