Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268748AbTGJAWr (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 20:22:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268751AbTGJAWr (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 20:22:47 -0400 Received: from rtichy.netro.cz ([213.235.180.210]:62459 "HELO 192.168.1.21") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S268748AbTGJAWi (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 20:22:38 -0400 Message-ID: <03e601c3467b$659d1160$401a71c3@izidor> From: "Milan Roubal" To: "Alan Cox" Cc: "Matthias Schniedermeyer" , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" , References: <027901c3461e$e023c670$401a71c3@izidor> <02ff01c34642$5512d7f0$401a71c3@izidor> <20030709175827.GA412@citd.de> <03ab01c34677$225d53a0$401a71c3@izidor> <1057796402.7386.8.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Subject: Re: Promise SATA 150 TX2 plus Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 02:37:08 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1410 Lines: 34 My board is PCI-X for all 6 slots or I can use PCI 64/66 for all slots. I am looking for cards that are not slow on this. I have got a working system with Promise PATA controllers that can read in software RAID 250 MB/s in sustained read and more than 150 MB/s random read. I am looking for same speeds with SATA drives and controllers. Thanx for the answer Milan Roubal ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Cox" To: "Milan Roubal" Cc: "Matthias Schniedermeyer" ; "Linux Kernel Mailing List" ; Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 2:20 AM Subject: Re: Promise SATA 150 TX2 plus > On Iau, 2003-07-10 at 01:06, Milan Roubal wrote: > > Wow, how is the performance of this cards? HPT PATA controllers > > was always bad in performance and if it has got SATA to PATA converter, > > I can't imagine how fast/slow it could be. > > If you are doing software raid its pretty irrelevant. With current > drives the cost of the multiple PCI transfers for each copy of the block > is the limiting factor on anything but PCI64/66Mhz really. > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/