NASLite Network Attached Storage

Hello,

Asus A7V133, AMD 1200, 500 MB, Netgear GA311
HD: Hitachi 80 GB ATA

Problem: Since the performance of the Gigabit environment is rather slow (7MB/s), I checked and found out, that in the Disk info menu the Drive is defined as UDMA (33) only:

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Disk-1 Hardware

* HDS728080PLAT20, ATA DISK drive
* attached ide-disk driver.
* host protected area => 1
* 160836480 sectors (82348 MB) w/1719KiB Cache, CHS=10011/255/63, UDMA(33)
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What I confirmed: the Hitachi HDD provides ATA 133, the IDE cable has 80 wires, the motherboard supports ATA 100 / DMA 3-5.

In the BIOS the HDD has been set to NONE.

What else can be done to increase the speed of the drive?

Thanks!

Ulrich

Regards from Alzenau, Germany

Hello,

What version are you using? the free versions have certain limits,

I am sorry not to have mentioned: NASlite 1.5, CD-Version, not the free version.

Can the BIOS identify the drives? If so, set to auto so the proper hardware UDMA mode is set at boot.

Yes, that works: it now says UDMA (100). Thank you!

However: Unfortunately the throughput did not change and remains 7000 kBytes/s for writing and 10000 kBytes/s for reading a file of 600 MB. This seems to be low for a Gigabit environment.

I changed the network cables which did not have any effect:
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Processor (CPU)
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
cpu MHz : 1208.759
cache size : 256 KB
bogomips : 2411.72
Memory
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 516280 30172 486108 0 1012
Disks
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Device
System 7.7M 3.7M 4.1M 47% RAM Disk
Storage Area 75.5G 73.1G 2.4G 97% NAS Disk-1
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I noticed that when writing the switch leds show a continuous data flow, but the HDD led of the NAS box is active for a couple of seconds, then comes on for a couple of seconds and so on.

Any suggestions to speed up the system?

Thank you!

Sorry to jump in but what if the BIOS is on an old machine and doesn't see the full size of the drives? Would NASlite+ ignore the size it gets from BIOS but enable a higher speed UDMA mode?

In my case it does. I've got three 300 GB Seagate drives that don't show up with full size in the BIOS messages but are set to UDMA66 and are recognised with full capacity in NASlite.

Motherboard as a DFI K6BV3+/66

That sounds promising. I will give it a try.

Thanks

Why not use a promise ide controller there are a few on ebay. there are two versions 100 and 133. that will speed up your drives.

I wanted to use a highpoint controller (not for raid but only as controller) but I've got problems with the length of the ide cables if I use a card instead of using the onboard ports.
I'm using a cube case that has the drive bays on the right side and the mobo on the left side. I hope I'm able to extend this system with SATA drives soon since SATA should give me the opportunity to use longer cables