Asus K8N-E and slow disk transfer

[Lars Tunkrans]

Ganael Laplanche wrote:
> 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
> 

   If you have a New and an OLD disk on  the same ATA chanell ;
  Do you have an old 40 lead or an new 80 lead ATA cable ?

  80 lead cable is a requirement för UDMA100 !

//Lars