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Telpiz Sorin <margelatto@yahoo.com> writes:

> =A0tried several times to install 7.0-RELEASE x amd64 on=A0my
> friend's=A0machine that is eqiupped with hard drive manufactured by
> Samsung. The hard drive (master) appears to have SATA interface,
> nonetheless SYSINSTALL regognizes it as ad04!

That is fine.

> Besides, SYSINSTALL complains about the disk's geometry=A0.=20

Also probably not a problem; C/H/S geometries are rarely important
these days.

>                                                           The text
> console works very slowly, though the machine=A0(ASUS motherboard) has
> 2 Gigs of RAM and=A0a=A0good GeForce video board. For comparison, my old
> IBM machine ( PentiumII , 128Mb RAM , 16Mb video memory ) runs Free
> BSD much more faster. Could you help us fix the=A0trouble?=20

Can you quantify the slowness?  This isn't much of an explanation for
us to work with...