FreeBSD 5.3b7and poor ata performance

[fandino]

Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <417CC2F9.1050900 at ng.fadesa.es>, fandino writes:
> 
> 
>>Robert, I'm trying to understand where GEOM fits in the FreeBSD I/O structure
>>and I only had found the original McKusick figure:
> 
> http://phk.freebsd.dk/pubs contains a number of slidesets and papers
> relevant to GEOM.

ok, I see it. Then it's impossible bypass GEOM to test character access
to disks.

However I would like to know disk performance of list members using a
VIA 82C686B chipset. Anyone in the list is using this chipset?

Thank you.