The following reply was made to PR kern/30531; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: bouyer@antioche.eu.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org,
	gnats-admin@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/30531: lsilogic raid array crawls
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 16:46:11 +0100

 The computer has 2Gb of memory, so I just repeated the dd with the
 aforementioned Fedora and got:
 
   % time dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null bs=1024k count=4096
   4096+0 records in 
   4096+0 records out
 
   real    0m49.366s
   user    0m0.015s
   sys 0m6.148s
 
 So a rough and ready estimate is 4096/49.366 = 83 MB/s >> 4 MB/s
 (so I don't think I will repeat with 4GB under NetBSD..)
 
 Are any of you using mpt(4) successfully? If so with what hardware?
 (It would make playing "spot the difference" easier..)
 
 Cheers,
 
 Patrick