IBM blade server abysmal disk write performances

[Dieter BSD]

> I am thinking that something fancy in that SAS drive is
> not being handled correctly by the FreeBSD driver.

I think so too, and I think the something fancy is "tagged command queuing".
The driver prints "da0: Command Queueing enabled" and yet your SAS drive
is only getting 1 write per rev, and queuing should get you more than that.
Your SATA drive is getting the expected performance, which means that NCQ
must be working.

> Please let me know if there is anything you would like me to run on the
> BSD 9.1 system to help diagnose this issue?

Looking at the mpt driver, a verbose boot may give more info.
Looks like you can set a "debug" device hint, but I don't
see any documentation on what to set it to.

I think it is time to ask the driver wizards why TCQ isn't working,
so I'm cc-ing the authors listed on the mpt man page.