i have an intel d525, 4 gb mem, with a promise sata300 tx4 controller.. my sync rate is about 29mb.. time to complete at 43% was 620 minutes to go. I look in the bios settings, the motherboard sees the controller as sata300. looking in the sys log I notice the following:

 

Oct 30 17:09:06 Babylon kernel: ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 mmio m4096@0xe0120000 ata 0xe0120380 irq 20

Oct 30 17:09:06 Babylon kernel: ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 mmio m4096@0xe0120000 ata 0xe0120280 irq 20

Oct 30 17:09:06 Babylon kernel: ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 mmio m4096@0xe0120000 ata 0xe0120200 irq 20

Oct 30 17:09:06 Babylon kernel: ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 mmio m4096@0xe0120000 ata 0xe0120300 irq 20

 

any help will be appreciated  thx i'm including complete sys log

parity drive is wd black 7200 rpm

the rest are wd green drives.

thank you for your help..

unraid-sys-log-10-3-2011.txt

I did not see anything that stood out.

 

Oct 30 17:09:06 Babylon emhttp: WDC_WD20EARS-00MVWB0_WD-WMAZA3338673 (sda) 1953514584
Oct 30 17:09:06 Babylon emhttp: WDC_WD20EARS-00MVWB0_WD-WMAZA1945261 (sdc) 1953514584
Oct 30 17:09:06 Babylon emhttp: WDC_WD20EARS-00MVWB0_WD-WCAZA5452503 (sdd) 1953514584
Oct 30 17:09:06 Babylon emhttp: WDC_WD20EARS-00MVWB0_WD-WCAZA5430758 (sde) 1953514584
Oct 30 17:09:06 Babylon emhttp: WDC_WD2002FAEX-007BA0_WD-WMAY00936018 (sdf) 1953514584
Oct 30 17:09:06 Babylon emhttp: WDC_WD20EARS-00MVWB0_WD-WMAZA3363043 (sdg) 1953514584

Oct 30 17:09:06 Babylon kernel: scsi0 : sata_promise
Oct 30 17:09:06 Babylon kernel: scsi1 : sata_promise
Oct 30 17:09:06 Babylon kernel: scsi2 : sata_promise
Oct 30 17:09:06 Babylon kernel: scsi3 : sata_promise
Oct 30 17:09:06 Babylon kernel: scsi4 : ata_piix
Oct 30 17:09:06 Babylon kernel: scsi5 : ata_piix

 

 

Looks like everything is configured well. i.e. Parity on Motherboard ports.

 

Could it be an issue with the partition 4K alignment on the EARS drives?

is there a jumper for the drives?

Are they manually aligned?

Do an fdisk -l and let's see the partition tables. (or maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree).

 

First thank you for your help Weebotech

 

Here the partition information

 

I never align , I did the preclear, i will check to see if they have jumpers.. Do they need the jumpers? if so what pins..

partiton-info.txt

What version of unRAID did you start with?

 

Someone else may need to jump in as I'm not well versed in the partition alignment situation.

started with version 4.7 and upgraded up to version 5.

 

None of the drives have any jumpers just check...

 

I'm a newbie so I apologize for the fragmented information.

 

thx...

The PCI bus will only support a single drive across all of the PCI slots at full speed.