On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:50:05 +0000, Ganael Laplanche wrote > [This is a repost from the amd64 list] > > Hi all, > > I've just bought an ASUS K8N-E mobo. I'm using FreeBSD-5.3-Stable > (amd64) and suffering from *very* slow disk transfer rates. The > chipset is an nforce3 and is correctly detected at boot : > > # dmesg > [...] > atapci0: <nVidia nForce3 Pro UDMA133 controller> port > 0xffa0-0xffaf,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 8.0 on > pci 0 [...] > > My disk is an UDMA100 one, everything seems to be correct : > # atacontrol mode 0 > Master = UDMA100 > Slave = BIOSPIO
Are you sure that the BIOS is using the correct PIO mode? You can try setting it yourself though. However, I don't have too much experience with that. I do know that the incorrect PIO mode can make your PC extremely slow. Jorn > > # sysctl -a > [...] > hw.ata.atapi_dma: 1 > hw.ata.ata_dma: 1 > [...] > > I use a new 80 lead ATA cable (shipped with my mobo)... Evrything > should be okay, but the whole system is very very slow. Copying a > 600 MB takes about 10 minutes (1 MB/sec) and makes the system nearly > unusable during the copy. > > Do you have any idea ? > > Ganaël LAPLANCHE > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.martymac.com > Tel : (+33)6.84.03.57.24. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
