Asus K8N-E and slow disk transfer

[Ganael Laplanche]

Hi,

Thank you for you answer :)

I have a new 80 lead ATA cable (a brand new provided with my mobo) and my disk
is a single device on the channel (no slave)...

Any (other) idea ?

Ganaël LAPLANCHE
ganael.laplanche at martymac.com
http://www.martymac.com
Tel : (+33)6.84.03.57.24.

---------- Original Message -----------
From: Lars Tunkrans <lars.tunkrans at bredband.net>
To: Ganael Laplanche <ganael.laplanche at martymac.com>
Cc: freebsd-amd64 at freebsd.org
Sent: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 18:59:10 +0100
Subject: Re: Asus K8N-E and slow disk transfer

> 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
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