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Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:48:30 -0600
From: "Vernon A. Fort" <vfort@provident-solutions.com>
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Subject: [gentoo-user] Adaptec 3405 Raid performance
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Anyone have one of these raid cards?  The disk performance is horrible.

The setup:
    ASUS P5Q
    kernel 2.6.25-gentoo-r9
    Adaptec 3405 Firmware version 5.2-12415 (June 7th 2007)
    XFS file systems with LVMS

I have put the mount options "noatime,nobarrier" in one file system but 
it made no difference.  Any suggestions?

Vernon