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[Daniel O'Connor]

On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Oliver Lehmann wrote:
> A colleague of mine has the same disks in a new Nvidia Atom 330
> system and he told me that he reaches around 70MB/sec write speed
> with a single large file on a single disk running linux 2.6.
>
> I hooked the disk up to my client:
>
> FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #0: Tue Jul 28 12:59:47 CEST 2009
> CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ (2200.10-MHz K8-class CPU)
> usable memory = 2138615808 (2039 MB)
> atapci0: <VIA 6420 SATA150 controller> port
> 0xd000-0xd007,0xc800-0xc803,0xc400-0xc407,0xc000-0xc003,0xb800-0xb80f
>,0xb400 -0xb4ff irq 20 at device 15.0 on pci0
> ad4: 953869MB <WDC WD10EADS-00L5B1 01.01A01> at ata2-master SATA150
>
> because the on-board controller is a VIA 6420 I had to set the
> SATA150 Jumper on the harddisk to have the controller detect the
> drive.

I found I was getting timeouts with this controller and exactly those 
drives even with the SATA150 jumper connected.

In the end I got a PCI Silicon Image 3114 based controller and it worked 
fine.

That said I gave up on the hardware as I couldn't get the motherboard to 
boot off the CF/IDE adapter so I got an AMD SB700 based board which 
works well (fingers crossed :)

I didn't do any stand alone drive performance tests though.

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