Hi all, I have a problem with the RS480M2-IL mainboard from MSI.
The problem is that I cannot write with more than 29 MB/s to a disk on any add-on PCI IDE/RAID controller, even not to a raid 0 array. I even get only 14 MB/s to a raid 1 array. I tried to attach a 3ware Escalade 7006-2 with 2 disks. I even tried some unknown IDE controller (ITE chip) on the PCI slots. I both tried OpenBSD/i386 and OpenBSD/amd64. The onboard IDE controller is forced to use DMA mode, since it was 10x slower otherwise because the controller did not report that DMA could be used. I tried the disks and controllers on another mainboard, and I could get at least 53 MB/s on the raid 0 array and 34 MB/s to an individual disk. Speeds were mesured with 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/100mb bs=1m count=100' This is the dmesg from the OpenBSD/amd64 installed were i had to include the twe driver myself. The same problem exists though with OpenBSD/i386's GENERIC kernel. Every suggestion is welcome, I already tried to tweak anything in the bios, doesn't change a thing, FreeBSD also has this same problem. OpenBSD 3.7 (CUSTOM) #0: Wed Jun 22 19:49:34 CEST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/CUSTOM real mem = 518582272 (506428K) avail mem = 433680384 (423516K) using 12711 buffers containing 52064256 bytes (50844K) of memory mainbus0 (root) cpu0 at mainbus0: (uniprocessor) cpu0: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+, 1990.06 MHz cpu0: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,NXE,MMXX,FFXSR,LONG,3DNOW2,3DNOW cpu0: 64KB 64b/line 2-way I-cache, 64KB 64b/line 2-way D-cache, 512KB 64b/line 16-way L2 cache cpu0: ITLB 32 4KB entries fully associative, 8 4MB entries fully associative cpu0: DTLB 32 4KB entries fully associative, 8 4MB entries fully associative pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 vendor "ATI", unknown product 0x5950 rev 0x00 ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 vendor "ATI", unknown product 0x5a3f rev 0x00 pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 vga1 at pci1 dev 5 function 0 vendor "ATI", unknown product 0x5954 rev 0x00 wsdisplay0 at vga1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) ohci0 at pci0 dev 19 function 0 vendor "ATI", unknown product 0x4374 rev 0x00: irq 7, version 1.0, legacy support usb0 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0 at usb0 uhub0: ATI OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered ohci1 at pci0 dev 19 function 1 vendor "ATI", unknown product 0x4375 rev 0x00: irq 7, version 1.0, legacy support usb1 at ohci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1 at usb1 uhub1: ATI OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered vendor "ATI", unknown product 0x4372 (class serial bus subclass SMBus, rev 0x04) at pci0 dev 20 function 0 not configured pciide0 at pci0 dev 20 function 1 vendor "ATI", unknown product 0x4376 rev 0x00: DMA, (partial support), channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <Maxtor 5T040H4> wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 39083MB, 80043264 sectors pciide0: channel 1 ignored (not responding; disabled or no drives?) pciide0:0:0: using DMA data transfers vendor "ATI", unknown product 0x4377 (class bridge subclass ISA, rev 0x00) at pci0 dev 20 function 3 not configured ppb1 at pci0 dev 20 function 4 vendor "ATI", unknown product 0x4371 rev 0x00 pci2 at ppb1 bus 2 twe0 at pci2 dev 2 function 0 "3ware Escalade IDE RAID" rev 0x01: irq 11 twe0: Escalade V1.3 scsibus0 at twe0: 16 targets sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <3WARE, Host drive #00, > SCSI2 0/direct fixed sd0: 152636MB, 19458 cyl, 255 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sec, 312598784 sec total rl0 at pci2 dev 3 function 0 "Realtek 8139" rev 0x10: irq 10 address 00:11:09:fa:e5:b5 rlphy0 at rl0 phy 0: RTL internal phy "VIA VT6306 FireWire" rev 0x80 at pci2 dev 4 function 0 not configured pchb1 at pci0 dev 24 function 0 "AMD AMD64 HyperTransport" rev 0x00 pchb2 at pci0 dev 24 function 1 "AMD AMD64 Address Map" rev 0x00 pchb3 at pci0 dev 24 function 2 "AMD AMD64 DRAM Cfg" rev 0x00 pchb4 at pci0 dev 24 function 3 "AMD AMD64 Misc Cfg" rev 0x00 isa0 at mainbus0 com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0 (mux 1 ignored for console): console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 sysbeep0 at pcppi0 dkcsum: wd0 matched BIOS disk 80 dkcsum: sd0 matched BIOS disk 81 root on wd0a rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302 # pcitweak -l PCI: Probing config type using method 1 PCI: Config type is 1 PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex) PCI: 00:00:0: chip 1002,5950 card 1462,7141 rev 00 class 06,00,00 hdr 00 PCI: 00:01:0: chip 1002,5a3f card 0000,0000 rev 00 class 06,04,00 hdr 01 PCI: 00:13:0: chip 1002,4374 card 1462,7141 rev 00 class 0c,03,10 hdr 80 PCI: 00:13:1: chip 1002,4375 card 1462,7141 rev 00 class 0c,03,10 hdr 00 PCI: 00:14:0: chip 1002,4372 card 1462,7141 rev 04 class 0c,05,00 hdr 80 PCI: 00:14:1: chip 1002,4376 card 1462,7141 rev 00 class 01,01,8a hdr 00 PCI: 00:14:3: chip 1002,4377 card 1462,7141 rev 00 class 06,01,00 hdr 80 PCI: 00:14:4: chip 1002,4371 card 0000,0000 rev 00 class 06,04,01 hdr 81 PCI: 00:18:0: chip 1022,1100 card 0000,0000 rev 00 class 06,00,00 hdr 80 PCI: 00:18:1: chip 1022,1101 card 0000,0000 rev 00 class 06,00,00 hdr 80 PCI: 00:18:2: chip 1022,1102 card 0000,0000 rev 00 class 06,00,00 hdr 80 PCI: 00:18:3: chip 1022,1103 card 0000,0000 rev 00 class 06,00,00 hdr 80 PCI: 01:05:0: chip 1002,5954 card 1462,7141 rev 00 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 PCI: 02:02:0: chip 13c1,1001 card 13c1,1001 rev 01 class 01,04,00 hdr 00 PCI: 02:03:0: chip 10ec,8139 card 1462,093c rev 10 class 02,00,00 hdr 00 PCI: 02:04:0: chip 1106,3044 card 1462,093d rev 80 class 0c,00,10 hdr 00 PCI: End of PCI scan ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message has been sent through ihosting.be To report spamming or other unaccepted behavior by a iHosting customer, please send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------