Log and Hardware Mismatch on SATA performance...

[djseto]

Re-Silver was successful. So the few things I could use some help with:
1. Why is the transfer speed showing different (see post 1)
2. What other hardware issues do I have that need to be fixed
3. Figuring out if my drive that was degraded is in fact dead. I can't submit a return to Seagate if it's passing SMART tests (at least not the last time I tried)

 

[djseto]

BTW, I removed the AutoTune and Tuneables and everything appears to be OK. In the BIOS, I noticed the drives are set to IDE. My options are AHCI, IDE, and RAID. If change to AHCI, will that break anything with my current config?

 

[Stux]

Would be higher performance on AHCI. Not sure if it'd break anything. It normally does with Windows.

Has your Sata speed problem gone?

 

[djseto]

I haven't tried the AHCI change yet and removing autoTune settings didn't change anything in terms of speed. I need to backup my data just incase things go kaboom. Replacing the degraded drive with a new one however did not change my speed. My devices on ADA3 and ADA4 still show 150MB/s compared to the other 3 that are 300MB/s. Not even sure where to begin to troubleshoot that....

If I make the AHCI change, worst case it doesnt boot up and I revert back to IDE right....in theory?

 

[Stux]

Btw, I suspect your motherboard only supports sata1 on its secondary ports.

 

[SweetAndLow]

Btw, I suspect your motherboard only supports sata1 on its secondary ports.

This is what I was thinking but couldn't find proof. Not enough info about this board.

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[djseto]

The specs on the ASUS website says all 6 support SATA 3Gb/s

https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M4A78LTM_LX/specifications/

Still waiting on data to back up to USB drive before I try AHCI or any further tweaking. Had to wait for long smartctl tests to finish.

 

[djseto]

I changed my SATA settings to AHCI. SATA Ports 5-6 don't show up at boot time in the BIOS with AHCI. They are only recognized by the system if the OS has a AHCI driver. Once FreeNAS booted, my drives on Ports 5-6 showed up, but at boot time, the BIOS only showed what was connected to ports 1-4. I am however now at 300MB (SATA 2.X) on all ports!

Code:

ay 10 04:50:45 freenas ada0 at ahcich0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0

May 10 04:50:45 freenas ada0: <ST1000DM003-1ER162 CC46> ACS-2 ATA SATA 3.x device

May 10 04:50:45 freenas ada0: Serial Number Z4YCD15F

May 10 04:50:45 freenas ada0: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes)

May 10 04:50:45 freenas ada0: Command Queueing enabled

May 10 04:50:45 freenas ada0: 953869MB (1953525168 512 byte sectors)

May 10 04:50:45 freenas ada0: quirks=0x1<4K>

May 10 04:50:45 freenas ada0: Previously was known as ad4

May 10 04:50:45 freenas ada1 at ahcich2 bus 0 scbus2 target 0 lun 0

May 10 04:50:45 freenas ada1: <ST1000DM003-1ER162 CC46> ACS-2 ATA SATA 3.x device

May 10 04:50:45 freenas ada1: Serial Number Z4YC3E7H

May 10 04:50:45 freenas ada1: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes)

May 10 04:50:45 freenas ada1: Command Queueing enabled

May 10 04:50:45 freenas ada1: 953869MB (1953525168 512 byte sectors)

May 10 04:50:45 freenas ada1: quirks=0x1<4K>

May 10 04:50:45 freenas ada1: Previously was known as ad8

May 10 04:50:45 freenas ada2 at ahcich3 bus 0 scbus3 target 0 lun 0

May 10 04:50:45 freenas ada2: <ST1000DM003-1ER162 CC46> ACS-2 ATA SATA 3.x device

May 10 04:50:45 freenas ada2: Serial Number Z4YBQMJX

May 10 04:50:45 freenas ada2: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes)

May 10 04:50:45 freenas ada2: Command Queueing enabled

May 10 04:50:45 freenas ada2: 953869MB (1953525168 512 byte sectors)

May 10 04:50:45 freenas ada2: quirks=0x1<4K>

May 10 04:50:45 freenas ada2: Previously was known as ad10

May 10 04:50:45 freenas ada3 at ahcich4 bus 0 scbus4 target 0 lun 0

May 10 04:50:45 freenas ada3: <ST1000DM003-1ER162 CC46> ACS-2 ATA SATA 3.x device

May 10 04:50:45 freenas ada3: Serial Number Z4YBKW5N

May 10 04:50:45 freenas ada3: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes)

May 10 04:50:45 freenas ada3: Command Queueing enabled

May 10 04:50:45 freenas ada3: 953869MB (1953525168 512 byte sectors)

May 10 04:50:45 freenas ada3: quirks=0x1<4K>

May 10 04:50:45 freenas ada3: Previously was known as ad12

May 10 04:50:45 freenas ada4 at ahcich5 bus 0 scbus5 target 0 lun 0

May 10 04:50:45 freenas ada4: <ST1000DM003-1ER162 CC46> ACS-2 ATA SATA 3.x device

May 10 04:50:45 freenas ada4: Serial Number Z4YCD7WA

May 10 04:50:45 freenas ada4: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes)

May 10 04:50:45 freenas ada4: Command Queueing enabled

May 10 04:50:45 freenas ada4: 953869MB (1953525168 512 byte sectors)

May 10 04:50:45 freenas ada4: quirks=0x1<4K>

May 10 04:50:45 freenas ada4: Previously was known as ad14

 

[djseto]

So what's the best way to figure out what was happening with my drive was degrading? I'm a Mac guy otherwise so if there is any troubleshooting of the "degraded" drive, it will have to be reconnected to the FreeNAS box...

 

[SweetAndLow]

So what's the best way to figure out what was happening with my drive was degrading? I'm a Mac guy otherwise so if there is any troubleshooting of the "degraded" drive, it will have to be reconnected to the FreeNAS box...

Smart data from the driver requires for that. It could have been the drive, cable or Sata controller.

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