From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 26 15:25:16 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8876216A4CE for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:25:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from tierra2.ng.fadesa.es (tierra2.ng.fadesa.es [195.55.55.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 959A943D1D for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:25:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fandino@ng.fadesa.es) Received: from [195.55.55.163] ([195.55.55.163]) (authenticated bits=0) by tierra2.ng.fadesa.es (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i9QFPD10023746 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:25:14 +0200 Message-ID: <417E6C59.1020404@ng.fadesa.es> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:25:13 +0200 From: fandino User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 X-Accept-Language: gl, en, es MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <14479.1098695558@critter.freebsd.dk> <417D25E8.6080804@ng.fadesa.es> <200410251928.01536.victor@alf.dyndns.ws> <200410251837.58257.Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com> In-Reply-To: <200410251837.58257.Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authenticated-Sender: user fandino from 195.55.55.163 X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version 0.75.1, clamav-milter version 0.75c on tierra2 X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3b7and poor ata performance X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: fandino@ng.fadesa.es List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:25:16 -0000 Thomas Sparrevohn wrote: >>>"Changes the DMA speed to 66 - The Controller is a 100 controller and the >>>disks are 100 Disks but I think the default for the controller is 66 and >>>hence there are most likely a small initialisation difference between >>>Linux, NetBSD and FreeBSD" >> >>Hi >> >>please can you post how do you solved the problem? >> > atacontrol mode DMA4 DMA4 > atacontrol mode DMA4 DMA4 > > The reason is that the motherboard only supports ATA100 on two out of four IDE > channels and hence you need to force the two other channels to run at DMA66 Thomas, are you sure? http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/asus/mb/socka/kt133a/a7v133/e688_a7v133.pdf On page 36 asus clearly state ATA100 support for all ata devices and promise controller is ATA100 enabled