Re: Tuning Hard Disks

2005-05-25 Thread Christian Hiris
On Wednesday 25 May 2005 04:51:04, Luyt wrote: > Interesting. > > I did an 'atacontrol cap 0 0' and this came up (see below). It tells that > my disk has 'SMART' support, but it isnt enabled. Any idea how I can enable > it? Try the port sysutils/smartmontools. AFAIR it installs the command 'smart

Re: Tuning Hard Disks

2005-05-24 Thread Luyt
Interesting. I did an 'atacontrol cap 0 0' and this came up (see below). It tells that my disk has 'SMART' support, but it isnt enabled. Any idea how I can enable it? ATA channel 0, Master, device ad0: Protocol Serial ATA v1.0 device model Maxtor 6Y200M0 serial number

Re: Tuning Hard Disks

2005-05-24 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 02:47:21PM -0700, Benjamin Keating wrote: Thank you. This is exactly what I was looking for. How did you learn about these tools? From the pages i've read (most of) the handbook, I didn't see it mention them. I came across one of the control

Re: Tuning Hard Disks

2005-05-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 02:47:21PM -0700, Benjamin Keating wrote: (please don't top-post.) > Thank you. This is exactly what I was looking for. How did you learn > about these tools? From the pages i've read (most of) the handbook, I > didn't see it mention them. I came across one of the control

Re: Tuning Hard Disks

2005-05-23 Thread Benjamin Keating
I just noticed, 3ware managed devices (obviously) don't show up. Is there 3rd party software that needs to be installed in order to view/tune 3ware (twe) devices? Nothing FreeBSD specific came with the card. On 5/23/05, Benjamin Keating <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you. This is exactly what

Re: Tuning Hard Disks

2005-05-23 Thread Benjamin Keating
Thank you. This is exactly what I was looking for. How did you learn about these tools? From the pages i've read (most of) the handbook, I didn't see it mention them. On 5/23/05, Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 11:12:59AM -0700, Benjamin Keating wrote: > > Hey all

Re: Tuning Hard Disks

2005-05-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 11:12:59AM -0700, Benjamin Keating wrote: > Hey all, > > I'd like to tweak my drives / view there current configurations. I get > really slow xfers from two machine in the same, quite, LAN (both > running FBSD 5.4 with good Intell Pro100 NICS). Im not sure if DMA is > enabl

Re: Tuning Hard Disks

2005-05-23 Thread Craig Kleski
On Monday 23 May 2005 06:12 pm, Benjamin Keating wrote: > Hey all, > > I'd like to tweak my drives / view there current configurations. I get > really slow xfers from two machine in the same, quite, LAN (both > running FBSD 5.4 with good Intell Pro100 NICS). Im not sure if DMA is > enabled or not