Subject: Re: RC1 problem Re: a very slow 2.2Ghz amd64
To: netbsd-users@netbsd.org, George Georgalis <george@galis.org>
From: Geert Hendrickx <ghen@telenet.be>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 11/04/2007 17:23:05
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 05:09:50PM +0100, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> I'm seeing the same thing with my Sun X2100.  Performs nicely with NetBSD 3.x,
> but slow like a dog with NetBSD 4.x.  I'm still having it with 4.0_RC3.
> 
> I've attached dmesg'es from 3.x and 4.x kernels.
> 
> George: did you find the "SATA emulate PATA" option in your X2100's BIOS?  I
> don't see any such setting.  Are you using ahcisata(4) now?
> 
> Another problem I have with NetBSD 4.x is that the box crashes instantly when
> running estd.


Interestingly, both problems seem to go away if I disable ehci0 via userconf(4).
It wasn't detected by NetBSD 3.1.

	Geert