Subject: Re: Interrupt problem
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: Jean-Edouard BABIN <listes@jeb.com.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/20/2005 09:21:55
Martin Husemann écrit:

> On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 06:52:59AM +0200, Jean-Edouard BABIN wrote:
> > I have installed NetBSD 2.0.2 on a new computer, but when i do "cp file1
> > file2" i have a little problem, this do a lot of interrupt so the copy is
> > very very slow
> [..]
> > pciide0 at pci0 dev 20 function 1
> > pciide0: ATI Technologies product 0x4349 (rev. 0x00)
> > pciide0: bus-master DMA support present, but unused (no driver support)
> 
> This is your problem, see man pciide - you are using PIO mode to talk
> to the disks, which is unusable slow.
> 
> You need a special driver for your hardware that uses bus master dma,
> which in your case should be ixpide.

ok thank you, i missed the line :/
so i will have to wait for netbsd 3 !

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