Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 08:10:26 +0000 From: "Ganael Laplanche" <ganael.laplanche@martymac.com> To: Robert McHugh <rmchugh@netaxs.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Asus K8N-E and slow disk transfer (fwd) Message-ID: <20050107080700.M84063@martymac.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.4.40.0501062013570.11782-100000@unix2.netaxs.com> References: <Pine.SUN.4.40.0501062013570.11782-100000@unix2.netaxs.com>
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Hi Rob, It runs well but you have to turn ACPI off at boot... Ganaël LAPLANCHE ganael.laplanche@martymac.com http://www.martymac.com Tel : (+33)6.84.03.57.24. ---------- Original Message ----------- From: Robert McHugh <rmchugh@netaxs.com> To: ganael.laplanche@martymac.com Sent: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 20:18:26 -0500 (EST) Subject: Asus K8N-E and slow disk transfer (fwd) > Hello Ganael, > > I have the same motherboard with two 160gb western digital sata disks. > I never ran any benchmarks on them, but the performance is nice. > > I was curious to know if you were able to get the amd64 release of FreeBSD > > 5.3 to run on your system. I tried many times but the install hangs when > it calls out to sysinstall. The 32 bit version runs fine. > > Thanks and good luck, > Rob > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:50:05 +0000 > From: Ganael Laplanche <ganael.laplanche@martymac.com> > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Asus K8N-E and slow disk transfer > > [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 > > # 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 > ganael.laplanche@martymac.com > 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 "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" ------- End of Original Message -------
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