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Re: Tekram DC390U2W performance

Subject: Re: Tekram DC390U2W performance
From: Mike Tibor (tibor@lib.uaa.alaska.edu)
Date: Wed Aug 30 18:17:28 2000


On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Xiaozhou Qiu wrote:

> Is there anyone who has a Tekram DC390 U2W (sym53c895 based) and make
> its throughput rate near 40 MB/s?
> When I read from 3 disks concurrently, the throughput is about 21
> MB/s. The performance even drops a bit if I try to access more disks at
> the same time. I tried to use larger blocks, such as 32k or 64k, and to
> change some driver configurations without success. When I used another
> sym53c875 based controller, I can got throughput about 36 MB/s.
> Any ideas?

A couple of things you might verify in your kernel config (normally
/usr/src/linux/.config) are:

 1) whether you're using the ncr53c8xx driver, or the sym53c8xx
    driver. While the "ncr" driver will work for an 895 based
    card, the "sym" driver should give better performance
 2) make sure you answer "no" to the config option "assume
    boards are SYMBIOS compatible".

Mike

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