messages from dmesg -- (HP ProLiant DL380 G5)

[Tzu-Hua Wang]

*Dear All:*
*I have bought HP ProLiant DL380 G5. The SAS Controller is Smart Array P400
(256MB).*
*I can setup FreeBSD 6.2R successfully and everything is OK. *
*However, I found that there is an amazing message in the dmesg:*

*ciss0: <HP Smart Array P400> port 0x4000-0x40ff mem
0xfde00000-0xfdefffff,0xfddf
0000-0xfddf0fff irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci6
ciss0: [GIANT-LOCKED]*

*--->**Smart Array P400 is activated by ciss0 successfully*

*da0 at ciss0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: <COMPAQ RAID 5  VOLUME OK> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device
da0: 135.168MB/s transfers
da0: 419946MB (860051248 512 byte sectors: 255H 32S/T 65535C)*

*--->**The Raid 5 configuration seems ok. However, it is ONLY SCSI-0 device*
*The transfer speed is so slow... only 135.168MB/s transfers*
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*The output message from 'diskinfo -c /dev/da0' is:*
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*/dev/da0
        512             # sectorsize
        440346238976    # mediasize in bytes (410G)
        860051248       # mediasize in sectors
        105398          # Cylinders according to firmware.
        255             # Heads according to firmware.
        32              # Sectors according to firmware.


I/O command overhead:
        time to read 10MB block      0.164235 sec       =    0.008msec/sector
        time to read 20480 sectors  20.531218 sec       =    1.003msec/sector
        calculated command overhead                     =    0.994msec/sector
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*Is it normal? Is there anything wrong on ciss0 driver or the hardware
(Smart Array P400 Or SAS HD)?*
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*Thanks..*
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