Re: Hard disk is too slow on NetBSD-5.0.1/x86_64

[David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

2010/1/8 Quentin Garnier <cube%cubidou.net@localhost>:
> On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 03:49:02PM +0200, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:
> [...]
>> pciide0 at pci0 dev 11 function 0
>> pciide0: vendor 0x10de product 0x0ab5 (rev. 0xb1)
>
> pciide(4) is the fallback driver for PCI IDE controllers. ÂIt can't do
> any device-specific configuration (for link speed) and doesn't do DMA
> either. ÂSo yeah, it's slow.
>
> It's a nvidia product, so I guess a likely candidate for a more correct
> driver would be viaide(4). ÂI'd start adding the IDs there and see what
> it gets you.
>
Maybe the attach message could include an explicit warning that disk
I/O will be slow?