> I have a Quadra 800 and 610, and (please don't shoot me) I've found
> OpenBSD 2.8 Scsi is running faster than the NetBSD 1.5 on the same
> drives.  

That wouldn't surprise me at all.  I don't think OpenBSD pulled in
the bus_space changes that helped me get the SMC 10/100 card at least
partially working.  They were the source of a chunk of the slowdown.

> I thought it was my drives at first, but the 1G Quantum SCSI drive I
> tried in my Quadra 800 runs very fast in my Sparc SS1+

The SS1+ at least has realy DMA and no bus_space hackery to deal with
big- and little-endian devices.  :-)

If it's a production machine and you don't _need_ to update, wait.

-allen

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