From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262732AbUBZISX (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Feb 2004 03:18:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262735AbUBZISW (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Feb 2004 03:18:22 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:41959 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262732AbUBZIRE (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Feb 2004 03:17:04 -0500 Message-ID: <403DAB74.1000504@pobox.com> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 03:16:52 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: kernel-ml@petermair.at CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Adaptec 1210SA SATA Controller Performance References: <403B5B47.2030907@petermair.at> In-Reply-To: <403B5B47.2030907@petermair.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Patrick Petermair wrote: > Hi! > > Yesterday I've setup a server with Adaptec's 1210SA SATA Controller and > 2 SATA disks. According to the kernel changelog the controller is > supported since 2.6.2 > > I've installed Debian on an IDE disk, built a 2.6.3 kernel with > CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_SIL, rebooted and the kernel detected the controller > plus both SATA disks (sda, sdb). As the next step I wanted to create a > software raid 1 with the 2 SATA disks. Because it took mdadm forever to > finish, I checked /proc/mdstat and saw a progress bar with a rate of > 12MB/s! Do you have Seagate disks? Jeff