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...cieve a response on freebsd-mobile, so I'm trying here. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE or 5.0-RELEASE onto my Dell Inspirion 8100. I'mjust doing a Standard installation and when FDisk loads I get: Disk name: ad0 DISK Geometry: 88 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 1413720 sectors (690MB) So I go and manually change the drive geometry with the G option and it shows the windows 2000 NTFS partition as 692Mb instead of 9.76Gb that it really is. I found the HD model number with Google on someone elses dmesg and got the correct CHS: ad0: 28615MB <IC25N030ATDA04-0> [58140/16/63]...

...n Vista Client was higher than this. Write was just a little bit under 50 MB/s and read 48 MB/s. Then I moved to larger files to make sure that I would get results that simulate better the environment, where I need Samba myself (Saving and reading 500-1000 MB images from and to Photoshop) . I chose 690MB Knoppix image. Read and write from SMBclient were 27 to 28 MB/s at average. Writing from Vista bursts at 50 MB/s and minimum was 28 MB/s leading to over 30 MB/s average. _Then to the problem_: Reading from Samba share gave bursts of 6 MB/s and repeated drops to 0,5 MB/s. I have same kind of proble...