FreeBSD 5.3b7and poor ata performance

[Bjoern Koenig]

Hello,

Tell your hard disk controller chip or at least the model of your mainboard. Do you have UDMA devices at your secondary ATA channel?

I had a similar problem and I wrote a problem report, but it was closed although the problem wasn't solved.

Atacontrol shows me UDMA5 too, but hard disk is slow. Try to set UDMA explicitly.

  atacontrol mode 0 UDMA5 UDMA5

Test your hard disk again. Does it work now at the right speed?

Björn