September 9, 201114 yr I got my build fully built and running this morning but I'm not sure if this is a problem. For some reason after I added 3 more drives to my setup this morning, the Parity Sync slowed speed slowed down by about 1/2 the speed it was going at originally. It was going at about 50 - 60 MB/s then after adding the other dives its only going at about 25 MB/s. Right now I'm running 9 drives, and the only thing that looks a little odd to me is it says that 2 of the 3 drives I added are IDE but they are not. Every drive is SATA. Not sure If I should be really concerned about that. I attached a system log. Disk 3, 4, and 5 are the ones I added when I noticed the problem start. syslog.zip
September 9, 201114 yr Is this your current setup? http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=15000.msg141169#msg141169 with the ASRock 880GM MB? Likely a bios setting that needs to change from IDE to AHCI. Some MBs have default settings for ports 1-4, and ports 5-6. I believe my Asus AMD board does as well. Probing IDE interface ide0... Sep 9 12:22:19 StorageSRV1 kernel: hda: Hitachi HDS5C3020ALA632, ATA DISK drive Sep 9 12:22:19 StorageSRV1 kernel: hdb: Hitachi HDS5C3020ALA632, ATA DISK drive Sep 9 12:22:19 StorageSRV1 kernel: hda: host max PIO4 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO4 Sep 9 12:22:19 StorageSRV1 kernel: hda: UDMA/100 mode selected Sep 9 12:22:19 StorageSRV1 kernel: hdb: host max PIO4 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO4 Sep 9 12:22:19 StorageSRV1 kernel: hdb: UDMA/100 mode selected
September 9, 201114 yr Author Likely a bios setting that needs to change from IDE to AHCI. Well chaining that in the bios fixed that problem. Now I'm syncing again at 50 MB/s. Thanks
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