2009-08-04

Debian on Intel SS4000

My little nas is much happier now running Debian Linux. Many thanks to Wouter for setting it up and making sure there is official Debian support for it.

Some screenshots:
wolf:~# grep Proc /proc/cpuinfo
Processor : XScale-80219 rev 0 (v5l)


wolf:~# uname -rm
2.6.30-1-iop32x armv5tel


wolf:~# fdisk -l /dev/md0

Disk /dev/md0: 2250.5 GB, 2250460889088 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 549428928 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

wolf:~# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
md0 : active raid5 sdd1[3] sdc1[2] sdb1[1] sda1[0]
2197715712 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/4] [UUUU]

5 comments:

Willem Brown said...

Hi,

just a quick question: are the LEDs of the hard drives on your NAS active?

There don't seem to be any modules for the LEDs for the SS4000 in the default kernel.

Regards
Willem

Paul Cobbaut said...

Indeed, only the LED's at the bottom of the box are operational.

paul

Anonymous said...

Hello, Paul
could you post "hdparm -Tt /dev/md0" from your box? I've got extremely slow system with SS4000 and 2.6.32-5-iop32x armv5tel kernel ...

Thank you in advance

Paul Cobbaut said...

wolf:~# uname -a
Linux wolf 2.6.30-1-iop32x #1 Sat Jul 18 15:28:16 UTC 2009 armv5tel GNU/Linux

wolf:~# hdparm -tT /dev/md0

/dev/md0:
Timing cached reads: 122 MB in 2.01 seconds = 60.69 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 104 MB in 3.03 seconds = 34.38 MB/sec

Paul Cobbaut said...

With newest Debian kernel:
wolf:~# hdparm -tT /dev/md0

/dev/md0:
Timing cached reads: 128 MB in 2.00 seconds = 63.99 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 106 MB in 3.02 seconds = 35.15 MB/sec

wolf:~# uname -a
Linux wolf 2.6.32-5-iop32x #1 Wed Oct 20 03:57:21 UTC 2010 armv5tel GNU/Linux