Slow Write Performance on 3ware controller

[Richard Collyer]

Nikolas Britton wrote:
>> Would moving the top card to the bottom slot and putting the 9500S-12 in
>> the top slot screw with FreeBSD in anyway or will it just accept the
>> changes and keep on going?
> 
> I don't see any problem doing that... FreeBSD would only care if it
> was the boot drive AND if it also changed the device name in /dev. So
> yes... try it... if it changes the /dev name just edit /etc/fstab with
> the new settings.

Oh yes, had fun with fstab in single user mode yesterday ... I'd put a 
spelling mistake in /etc/fstab that was fun as it was my first venture 
into single user mode. Took me 20 mins to realise that only / was 
mounted and that /use wasn't hence no editors or shells.

As this is a production server (its only my home file server) and the 
card was an ebay special at sub $200 I'm happy with the performance.

I may play around with moving them when some more routine maintenance 
comes up but as I am only writing to it over the 100Mbit network 
50MB/sec is more than enough for what I am looking at.

Many thanks for the help.

Cheers
Richard