From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 31 02:57:05 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFFF137B401 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 02:57:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spider.deepcore.dk (cpe.atm2-0-56339.0x50c6aa0a.abnxx2.customer.tele.dk [80.198.170.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9F3E43F93 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 02:57:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos@spider.deepcore.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by spider.deepcore.dk (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h6V9v1xb025968; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 11:57:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos) From: Soeren Schmidt Message-Id: <200307310957.h6V9v1xb025968@spider.deepcore.dk> In-Reply-To: <344955013.20030731135056@centrum.cz> To: Buckie Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 11:57:00 +0200 (CEST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL98b (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ultra ATA card doesn't seem to provide Ultra speeds. X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 09:57:06 -0000 It seems Buckie wrote: > Hello hackers! > > I hope someone can help me with this since you know the internals of > FreeBSD much more than me. Hope it doesn't take much time. > > The sort of problem I'm having is this: after installing a new Ultra > ATA card (it's based on Silicon Image 0680 chip by the way) although > the disks start to run at UATA6 (133) mode (as seen in dmesg output or > atacontrol), I see absolutely no > improvement compared to WDMA2 mode they used to run previously. I > still can get around 14Mb/s on dd transfers, but there has to be > more? My motherboard only supports WDMA2 mode and nothing more and > that's why I bought the card. Is there any trick I forgot to apply? > The drive is Maxtor 120Gb Diamond Plus 9. > Also, file transfers from mounted NTFS seem to be very very slow, much > slower than UFS transfers, what gives (when using mkisofs for example > for burning CDs)? > > Hope someone can shed some light on this... Possibly, but you need to give us info so we can try to diagnose the problem "it doesn't work" it not enough, so please provide at least: FreeBSD version (output of uname -a) Boot log (output of dmesg) -Søren