atom feed5 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-hardwarePC Specifications for Free BSD
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Hammad TariqFeb 17, 2008 3:40 am 
Ivan VorasFeb 17, 2008 6:04 am 
Erich DollanskyFeb 17, 2008 6:42 am 
John BaldwinFeb 25, 2008 4:31 pm 
Ivan VorasFeb 25, 2008 6:06 pm 
Subject:PC Specifications for Free BSD
From:Ivan Voras (ivo@freebsd.org)
Date:Feb 25, 2008 6:06:22 pm
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-hardware

On 25/02/2008, John Baldwin <jh@freebsd.org> wrote:

On Sunday 17 February 2008 08:27:29 am Ivan Voras wrote:

A friend of mine had problems with x3250; specifically with the mpt disk controller he got shipped with it (LSI 1064E SAS/RAID). The problem manifests in low IO performance on the drives and it's apparently something in the driver. If you can verify that your machine doesn't have this controller, or you don't care about disk IO performance, it's a good enough machine.

Did you use SATA disks? There was a recent patch a few months ago to make the mpt(4) driver enable the write-cache on SATA disks. It may require changing a loader tunable to enable it by default though.

Good idea, he probably did use SATA. I'll tell him about it.