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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Lawrence Walton <lawrence@the-penguin.otak.com>
Cc: Alex Bligh - linux-kernel <linux-kernel@alex.org.uk>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 3ware 9550SX problems - mke2fs incredibly slow writing last third of inode tables
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 18:13:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wtjs8f54.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051101170413.GA11640@the-penguin.otak.com> (Lawrence Walton's message of "Tue, 1 Nov 2005 09:04:13 -0800")

* Lawrence Walton:

>> In my experience, the 3ware SATA controllers which are not NCQ-capable
>> have very, very lousy write performance with some drives, unless you
>> enable the write cache (which is, of course, a bit dangerous without
>> UPS or battery backup on the controller).

> Not to sound like the a 3ware chearleader, but this card does support NCQ.

Oh.  I didn't know whether this particukar controller supported NCQ or
not.

BTW, does anybody know if NCQ support is available for the 9500S in a
firmware upgrade?

  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-01 17:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-30 21:10 3ware 9550SX problems - mke2fs incredibly slow writing last third of inode tables Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2005-11-01 12:45 ` Florian Weimer
2005-11-01 17:04   ` Lawrence Walton
2005-11-01 17:13     ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2005-11-02  0:11       ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2005-11-01 22:54         ` Jeff V. Merkey
2005-11-02 22:39           ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
     [not found] <BEDEA151E8B1D6CEDD295442@192.168.100.25>
2005-11-02 22:59 ` adam radford
2005-11-05  9:06   ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2005-11-05 17:01     ` Jeff V. Merkey
2005-11-07 21:53     ` Florian Weimer

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