just built up my server and it is extremly slow. 200-300k transfer speeds. perhaps im missing some bios setting which is causing the slowdown? ACHI is enabled.

syslog.txt

It appears as if you've got the SATA controller set to emulate an old IDE drive. (to make them usable by legacy window's OS with no built-in SATA drives)

 

Nov  7 01:26:50 HAL kernel: Probing IDE interface ide0...

Nov  7 01:26:50 HAL kernel: hda: ST32000542AS, ATA DISK drive

Nov  7 01:26:50 HAL kernel: hdb: ST32000542AS, ATA DISK drive

Nov  7 01:26:50 HAL kernel: hda: host max PIO4 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO4

Nov  7 01:26:50 HAL kernel: hda: UDMA/100 mode selected

Nov  7 01:26:50 HAL kernel: hdb: host max PIO4 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO4

Nov  7 01:26:50 HAL kernel: hdb: UDMA/100 mode selected

 

And they are in polled IO mode... (translation = slow)

 

If they were in the normal mode for SATA drives they would show as "sdX" devices and not "hdX" devices.

Thanks for the correct and quick advice. Im up and running now.

Sorry to expand on this Joe L. but maybe you can help me too.

I installed my unraid system last night and have transfered 700 GB till now and only 9mb/s to 10mb/s (parity drive enabled) transfer rate i have attached my syslog maybe you can help me please 100mb/s network.

 

 

thanks

syslog-2010-11-06.txt

Is it ten megaBITS, or ten megaBYTES per second. If the former, then yes, you're running slow. If the latter, then you're pretty much saturating your fast ethernet connection. Ten megabytes, or MB per second is eighty megabits or Mb per second, which is all you can expect out of fast ethernet in the real world.

 

If you're running at 10 MB/s and you can't tolerate it, then it's probably time for a gigabit switch, which can be had for as little as $30.

Sorry to expand on this Joe L. but maybe you can help me too.

I installed my unraid system last night and have transfered 700 GB till now and only 9mb/s to 10mb/s (parity drive enabled) transfer rate i have attached my syslog maybe you can help me please 100mb/s network.

 

 

thanks

Exactly as he said... You are running at the limit of your 100Mb/s network connection.

thanks guys i think that is definitely the answer