Subject: Re: Massive read/write performance problems with 3.0
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Tonnerre LOMBARD <tonnerre@bsdprojects.net>
List: port-amd64
Date: 05/10/2006 00:02:21
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Salut,

On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 11:55:43PM +0200, Tonnerre LOMBARD wrote:
> Well, I figured that SATA write caching was disabled in the BIOS. I enabled
> it but now the thing won't boot up:

Ok, this error doesn't seem to be directly related to the setting.

 * SATA write cache enabled:
   -> guaranteed fault on bootup
 * SATA write cache disabled:
   -> occasional fault on bootup

At any rate, the problem always turns up when the DHCP offer is received
it seems. Maybe it has something to do with writing the lease file.

				Tonnerre

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