Hi all,

I have a Maxtor 120GB drive currently installed on my workstation,
an Athlon XP machine with a VIA KT400 chipset (thus using viaide(4)
under NetBSD-current).  If I do the following to get a rough idea of
the drive's performance:

	dd if=/dev/wd0d of=/dev/zero bs=8m count=100

I get something around 22 MB/s.

The thing is that I would like to move that drive to my server and
share it with Samba or whatever.  The server is a Pentium 3 450Mhz
machine and has a PCI ATA100 controller.  I plugged the drive there
and reran the same test as on the other machine.  It gave only
5 MB/s.

This machine is using cmdide(4) (on NetBSD 3.0) for that PCI card
and the kernel reports that the drive is running in UDMA5 mode.

Might this be due to misconfiguration or, simply put, the machine
cannot give more?

Thanks,

PS: Running the command shown above using rwd0d instead of wd0d on
the P3 machine gives around 30MB/s.  (Haven't tried on the other
box, though.)