atom feed16 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-stableRe: Dump takes ages on SCSI. (severa...
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David GilbertJul 2, 2000 1:24 pm 
Kent StewartJul 2, 2000 2:53 pm 
David GilbertJul 2, 2000 5:42 pm 
Kent StewartJul 2, 2000 6:50 pm 
Chad R. LarsonJul 2, 2000 8:44 pm 
David GilbertJul 2, 2000 9:25 pm 
Kenneth D. MerryJul 2, 2000 10:55 pm 
David MaloneJul 3, 2000 12:01 am 
kostikJul 3, 2000 1:35 am 
Gerhard SittigJul 3, 2000 10:38 am 
Mike SmithJul 3, 2000 6:57 pm 
Mike SmithJul 4, 2000 4:08 am 
Mike SmithJul 4, 2000 5:22 am 
Gerhard SittigJul 4, 2000 10:16 am 
Mike SmithJul 6, 2000 2:36 am 
Don LewisJul 14, 2000 1:36 am 
Subject:Re: Dump takes ages on SCSI. (several times faster on IDE)
From:kostik (kos@org.chem.msu.su)
Date:Jul 3, 2000 1:35:40 am
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-stable

On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Kent Stewart wrote:

"Kent" == Kent Stewart <kste@3-cities.com> writes:

I then noticed that the IDE would crashdump somewhere around 10 times faster than the SCSI disk.

Why? Can the SCSI speed be improved?

Kent> It depends on what 2940 and what IDE drive you are talking Kent> about. I have a Maxtor UDMA66 that is 20MB/s faster in some

I don't think this explains it at all. It would appear that the SCSI driver is running in some "extra safe" mode, or something. It has 512M to write sequentually to a partition... and the counting on the screen, we're looking at 2 to 3 seconds-per-megabyte (on a drive that delivers write performance of about 10M/s in normal operation).

Maybe what I should have said that the ratio of regular operation to dump performance of the ide driver is about 1:1 while it's 10:1 for the SCSI driver... why is this?

I don't have any idea up front. One thing comes to mind and that is does your Quantum come up with "tagged queuing enabled". My IBM has

i have the same hdd, ibm dcas-34330W. it is very interesting that "tagged queuing" was enabled for scsi driver while i was working with freebsd-3.0-release and became disabled (or isn't recognised) when i upgrade to freebsd-4.0-release.

that disabled or more precisely never enabled, which makes it slower and safer. My dmesg shows the drive as

da0: <IBM DCAS-34330W S65A> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 8, 16bit) da0: 4134MB (8467200 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 527C)

can you explain me this "safeness" please ?

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