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Hi Rob,

It runs well but you have to turn ACPI off at boot...

Ganaël LAPLANCHE
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---------- Original Message -----------
From: Robert McHugh <rmchugh@netaxs.com>
To: ganael.laplanche@martymac.com
Sent: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 20:18:26 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Asus K8N-E and slow disk transfer (fwd)

> Hello Ganael,
> 
> I have the same motherboard with two 160gb western digital sata disks. 
>  I never ran any benchmarks on them, but the performance is nice.
> 
> I was curious to know if you were able to get the amd64 release of FreeBSD
> 
> 5.3 to run on your system.  I tried many times but the install hangs when
> it calls out to sysinstall.  The 32 bit version runs fine.
> 
> Thanks and good luck,
> Rob
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:50:05 +0000
> From: Ganael Laplanche <ganael.laplanche@martymac.com>
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Asus K8N-E and slow disk transfer
> 
> [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
> 
> # 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@martymac.com
> http://www.martymac.com
> Tel : (+33)6.84.03.57.24.
> 
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