7.1, mpt and slow writes

[Charles Sprickman]

On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Gary Palmer wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:43:11PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote:
>
> [ snip ]
>
>> Any idea what happened to the sysctl?  Is there some other method to
>> verify the loader tunable took (other than testing the throughput)?
>
> Boot with -v.  If the loader tunable took effect, you should see
> "Enabling SATA WC on phy " instead of "Disabling SATA ..."

Cool, it works then.  Why was the info removed from the sysctl mib?

mpt0: Enabling SATA WC on phy 0
mpt0: Enabling SATA WC on phy 1

Bonnie++ is showing me about 24MB/s writes and 70MB/s reads.

Is any of this verbose stuff problematic?

mpt0: No Handlers For Any Event Notify Frames. Event 0xa (ACK not required).
mpt0: No Handlers For Any Event Notify Frames. Event 0x16 (ACK not required).
mpt0: No Handlers For Any Event Notify Frames. Event 0x12 (ACK not required).
mpt0: No Handlers For Any Event Notify Frames. Event 0x12 (ACK not required).
mpt0: No Handlers For Any Event Notify Frames. Event 0x16 (ACK not required).
mpt0: No Handlers For Any Event Notify Frames. Event 0xb (ACK not required).

And is any of this info found at boot-time accessible while the system is 
running?

mpt0:vol0(mpt0:0:0): Settings ( Hot-Plug-Spares High-Priority-ReSync )
mpt0:vol0(mpt0:0:0): Using Spare Pool: 0
mpt0:vol0(mpt0:0:0): 2 Members:
       (mpt0:1:32:0): Primary Online
       (mpt0:1:1:0): Secondary Online
mpt0:vol0(mpt0:0:0): RAID-1 - Optimal
mpt0:vol0(mpt0:0:0): Status ( Enabled )
(mpt0:vol0:1): Physical (mpt0:0:1:0), Pass-thru (mpt0:1:0:0)
(mpt0:vol0:1): Online
(mpt0:vol0:0): Physical (mpt0:0:32:0), Pass-thru (mpt0:1:1:0)
(mpt0:vol0:0): Online

Thanks,

Charles

ps - would it kill Dell to make a damn ISO of a bootable media for RAID 
controller firmware upgrades???  I don't even own anything with a floppy 
drive anymore.

> Regards,
>
> Gary
>
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