Re: Strange Intel Mobo Behavior

2007-06-04 Thread Rob
Tim Daneliuk wrote: The ad6 drive is supposed to do SATA-300, but realistically, other bottlenecks dictate it's not going to get anywhere near the '150 speed, Could you comment a bit more on why you think this is so. I would think that with modern processors and buses, a machine with light lo

Re: Strange Intel Mobo Behavior

2007-06-04 Thread Garrett Cooper
Juha Saarinen wrote: On 6/4/07, Tim Daneliuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I get around 50MB/sec or so with about 2G file, so we're in the same ballpark. In round numbers, this is 1/3 the theoretical throughput of a SATA-150 or 1/6 that of SATA-300. Now, I *am* curious on what the bottlenecks are

Re: Strange Intel Mobo Behavior

2007-06-04 Thread Juha Saarinen
On 6/4/07, Tim Daneliuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I get around 50MB/sec or so with about 2G file, so we're in the same ballpark. In round numbers, this is 1/3 the theoretical throughput of a SATA-150 or 1/6 that of SATA-300. Now, I *am* curious on what the bottlenecks are. 50MB/sec isn't a wh

Re: Strange Intel Mobo Behavior

2007-06-03 Thread Tim Daneliuk
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 02:08 PM 6/3/2007, Tim Daneliuk wrote: 3) Both the MOBO and drive are SATA-300 rated, but 6.2 insists that the drive is running at SATA-150. I have verified that the drive has no jumper forcing it into this mode. Don't know about the other issues, but I have

Re: Strange Intel Mobo Behavior

2007-06-03 Thread Tim Daneliuk
Norberto Meijome wrote: Maybe unrelated - I had a similar problem yesterday on a small box @ home - it was stopping for about 2 minutes or so just before showing the line about ad0. It turned out one of the PCI cards (TV card) had become a bit lose and was obvioulsy causing problems. Once this w

Re: Strange Intel Mobo Behavior

2007-06-03 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 13:08:02 -0500 Tim Daneliuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (Originally asked on -hardware and -smp but no one seemed to have any > ideas. Repeating here to the larger group in hopes of some answers. TIA.) > > System: > > Intel D946GZIS MOBO w/ICH7 SATA-II support > WDC WD2500J

Re: Strange Intel Mobo Behavior

2007-06-03 Thread r17fbsd
At 02:08 PM 6/3/2007, Tim Daneliuk wrote: 3) Both the MOBO and drive are SATA-300 rated, but 6.2 insists that the drive is running at SATA-150. I have verified that the drive has no jumper forcing it into this mode. Don't know about the other issues, but I have a Dell with similar Intel

Strange Intel Mobo Behavior

2007-06-03 Thread Tim Daneliuk
(Originally asked on -hardware and -smp but no one seemed to have any ideas. Repeating here to the larger group in hopes of some answers. TIA.) System: Intel D946GZIS MOBO w/ICH7 SATA-II support WDC WD2500JS-00NCB1 250G Hard Drive that claims to do 3G/s Pentium D @ 3.2GHz In addition to the on