From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 7 08:12:53 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D99E16A4CE for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 08:12:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.martymac.com (martymac.com [82.224.94.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E23DA43D1D for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 08:12:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ganael.laplanche@martymac.com) Received: from martymac.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.martymac.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C161F193; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 09:12:32 +0100 (CET) From: "Ganael Laplanche" To: "Jorn Argelo" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 08:12:32 +0000 Message-Id: <20050107081122.M33479@martymac.com> In-Reply-To: <20050106180304.M82599@wcborstel.nl> References: <20050106164506.M14496@martymac.com> <20050106180304.M82599@wcborstel.nl> X-Mailer: Open WebMail 2.41 20040926 X-OriginatingIP: 62.4.23.8 (martymac) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Subject: Re: Asus K8N-E and slow disk transfer X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 08:12:53 -0000 Hi Jorn, It is set to "auto". I haven't tried to set it manually, maybe it's a good idea ! I'm gonna try this... Thanks, Ganaël LAPLANCHE ganael.laplanche@martymac.com http://www.martymac.com Tel : (+33)6.84.03.57.24. ---------- Original Message ----------- From: "Jorn Argelo" To: "Ganael Laplanche" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 19:05:16 +0100 Subject: Re: Asus K8N-E and slow disk transfer > 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: 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 > > 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 -------