Installation on a watchguard x750e with 80Gb HDD

TieT

yes i read that and also tried it, but no dice…
I kept getting the error.

thx for the link on LCDproc problem.
Got it working again :)

snort also needed some softlinks in order to get it up and running again.

I searched through my heap of laptops i got lying around, and found the SL7SM :)

stephenw10

Free is the best sort of upgrade. ;D

TieT

yep ;D

Steve Evans

Hi TieT,

Add the following to your /boot/loader.conf.local file.

hint.ata.0.dev0.mode=PIO4

Remove the line that reads:

hw.ata.ata_dma="0"

You will then find your disks configured thus (see dmesg) which shows PIO on the CF (ada0) and DMA on the HDD (ada1).

ada0 at ata0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0
ada0: <sandisk sdcfh-004g="" hdx="" 6.02="">CFA-0 device
ada0: Serial Number ABZ042211193008
ada0: 16.700MB/s transfers (PIO4, PIO 512bytes)
ada0: 3815MB (7813120 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 7751C)
ada0: Previously was known as ad0
ada1 at ata0 bus 0 scbus0 target 1 lun 0
ada1: <st9402115a 3.01="">ATA-6 device
ada1: Serial Number 5PV09ZED
ada1: 100.000MB/s transfers (UDMA5, PIO 8192bytes)
ada1: 38154MB (78140160 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C)
ada1: Previously was known as ad1</st9402115a></sandisk>

I'm now getting the performance I need for my disk used for logs and caching under 2.2.

$ diskinfo -tv /dev/ad1
/dev/ad1
        512             # sectorsize
        40007761920     # mediasize in bytes (37G)
        78140160        # mediasize in sectors
        0               # stripesize
        0               # stripeoffset
        77520           # Cylinders according to firmware.
        16              # Heads according to firmware.
        63              # Sectors according to firmware.
        5PV09ZED        # Disk ident.

Seek times:
        Full stroke:      250 iter in   7.926598 sec =   31.706 msec
        Half stroke:      250 iter in   6.203416 sec =   24.814 msec
        Quarter stroke:   500 iter in   9.877891 sec =   19.756 msec
        Short forward:    400 iter in   3.476113 sec =    8.690 msec
        Short backward:   400 iter in   2.381591 sec =    5.954 msec
        Seq outer:       2048 iter in   0.197696 sec =    0.097 msec
        Seq inner:       2048 iter in   0.179296 sec =    0.088 msec
Transfer rates:
        outside:       102400 kbytes in   3.135350 sec =    32660 kbytes/sec
        middle:        102400 kbytes in   3.745807 sec =    27337 kbytes/sec
        inside:        102400 kbytes in   5.382397 sec =    19025 kbytes/sec

Steve

stephenw10

Tie isn't booting from the CF card so it may not be necessary to disable DMA at all.

Steve Evans

I see he's updated his BIOS. Missed that.

Steve

stephenw10

Yeah, seems slightly odd that he needed to do anything. :-\

TieT

I get these numbers:

[2.2-RELEASE][admin@fw1.home]/root: diskinfo -tv ad0
ad0
        512             # sectorsize
        80026361856     # mediasize in bytes (75G)
        156301488       # mediasize in sectors
        0               # stripesize
        0               # stripeoffset
        155061          # Cylinders according to firmware.
        16              # Heads according to firmware.
        63              # Sectors according to firmware.
        WD-WXEX08TJ6328 # Disk ident.

Seek times:
        Full stroke:      250 iter in  11.428668 sec =   45.715 msec
        Half stroke:      250 iter in   7.231832 sec =   28.927 msec
        Quarter stroke:   500 iter in  15.496462 sec =   30.993 msec
        Short forward:    400 iter in   5.091478 sec =   12.729 msec
        Short backward:   400 iter in   4.274550 sec =   10.686 msec
        Seq outer:       2048 iter in   0.328848 sec =    0.161 msec
        Seq inner:       2048 iter in   0.309770 sec =    0.151 msec
Transfer rates:
        outside:       102400 kbytes in   3.423876 sec =    29908 kbytes/sec
        middle:        102400 kbytes in   4.502569 sec =    22743 kbytes/sec
        inside:        102400 kbytes in   4.267557 sec =    23995 kbytes/sec

But I will test it again today and post back the results, maybe i overlooked something.

TieT

You guys where right, the line doesn't do anything and my system booted perfect when i removed it.

hw.ata.ata_dma="1"

I think it was a layer 8 problem… trying to do too much at the same time :)

these are my results now


ata0: DMA limited to UDMA33, controller found non-ATA66 cable
ada0 at ata0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0
ada0: <wdc wd800beve-00uyt0="" 01.04a01="">ATA-7 device
ada0: Serial Number WD-WXEX08TJ6328
ada0: 33.300MB/s transfers (UDMA2, PIO 8192bytes)
ada0: 76319MB (156301488 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C)
ada0: Previously was known as ad0</wdc>

[2.2-RELEASE][admin@fw1.home]/root: diskinfo -tv ad0
ad0
        512             # sectorsize
        80026361856     # mediasize in bytes (75G)
        156301488       # mediasize in sectors
        0               # stripesize
        0               # stripeoffset
        155061          # Cylinders according to firmware.
        16              # Heads according to firmware.
        63              # Sectors according to firmware.
        WD-WXEX08TJ6328 # Disk ident.

Seek times:
        Full stroke:      250 iter in  10.765901 sec =   43.064 msec
        Half stroke:      250 iter in   8.400064 sec =   33.600 msec
        Quarter stroke:   500 iter in  15.856698 sec =   31.713 msec
        Short forward:    400 iter in   5.024369 sec =   12.561 msec
        Short backward:   400 iter in   5.086160 sec =   12.715 msec
        Seq outer:       2048 iter in   0.319964 sec =    0.156 msec
        Seq inner:       2048 iter in   0.329491 sec =    0.161 msec
Transfer rates:
        outside:       102400 kbytes in   3.433698 sec =    29822 kbytes/sec
        middle:        102400 kbytes in   3.800647 sec =    26943 kbytes/sec
        inside:        102400 kbytes in   4.714269 sec =    21721 kbytes/sec

Conclusion: need a faster disk ;D

stephenw10

Thanks for testing that. I was pretty sure but it's nice to know for certain. :)

Steve