Wojciech Puchar said:

>this is the only thing i would not like to have.

The VIA chipset did seem to have some ide problems with NetBSD 1.5,
but they seem to have been fixed in 1.5.1.

>buy separate CD-ROM drive. using CD-RW to read CDROMs is not a good idea.

I've been thinking about doing just that. They are pretty cheap these
days.

>> But the machine is a screamer...
>
>could you do:
>
>dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=64k count=16384 on unloaded system?
>
>and tell me time.

speedy# /usr/bin/time dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=64k count=16384
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes transferred in 1 secs (1073741824 bytes/sec)
        0.53 real         0.00 user         0.52 sys


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