Asus K8N-E and slow disk transfer

[Ganael Laplanche]

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 at martymac.com
http://www.martymac.com
Tel : (+33)6.84.03.57.24.

---------- Original Message -----------
From: "Jorn Argelo" <jorn at wcborstel.nl>
To: "Ganael Laplanche" <ganael.laplanche at martymac.com>,
freebsd-questions at 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: <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
> 
> 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 at martymac.com
> > http://www.martymac.com
> > Tel : (+33)6.84.03.57.24.
> > 
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