From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 17 22:26:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from camus.cybercable.fr (camus.cybercable.fr [212.198.0.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EC5AE14ED4 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 22:26:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from herbelot@cybercable.fr) Received: (qmail 10235985 invoked from network); 18 Dec 1999 06:27:01 -0000 Received: from d027.paris-6.cybercable.fr (HELO cybercable.fr) ([212.198.6.27]) (envelope-sender ) by camus.cybercable.fr (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 18 Dec 1999 06:27:01 -0000 Message-ID: <385B2944.6ABE249E@cybercable.fr> Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 07:27:16 +0100 From: Thierry Herbelot X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: djb@relativity.student.utwente.nl Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Success with ATA drivers and UDMA66 References: <19991218021726.A931@relativity.student.utwente.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Dave J. Boers" wrote: > > Hi all, > > I just wanted to let you know that I enabled UDMA66 (by plugging in an 80 > conductor cable) on my WDC AC418000D today. The mainboard is an ABit BP6 > with builtin Highpoint HPT366 ATA controller. > > The system works very nicely. I did some heavy testing in single user mode > by moving several 300 Mb files around between the IDE disk and my other > SCSI disk (which got me a sustained transfer rate of over 10 Mb/sec). Then > I made world. Everything works great (softupdates enabled on all > filesystems except "/"). > > If someone wants me to do some specific testing, let me know. > Do you boot from the UDMA66 drive ? What is your BIOS revision ? How many SDARM DIMMs do you use ? What is the rating of your Power supply ? Do you use an AGP graphics board ? (I also have a BP6 and I'm mildly satisfied by its stability up to now, I'm looking for ways to upgrade it and hints to increase the reliability) TfH > Regards, > > Dave Boers. > > -- > God, root, what's the difference? > djb@relativity.student.utwente.nl > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message