On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 11:21:59PM +0100, Netzhaut wrote:
> I am running NetBSD 1.4W Generic on a Quadra 840 AV. The Quadra
> is used as an Appleshare Fileserver with netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3
> and as router in an 10 MBit Appletalk network with iMacs, G 3 and
> a Performa 630 running MacOS. To copy a 20 MB Photoshop file to
> the Quadra it needs 2 min 15 s, by ftp it needs 2 min 30 s. To copy
> this file from iMAc to iMac it needs less than 50 s, even to the
> Performa only 1 min 20s.

How long does it take to just read the file?
(Something like "time dd if=filename of=/dev/null bs=64k" will test this)
As Dave Huang pointed out, the disk driver is not yet using DMA on this
machine.  Anyone have a machine want to work on this?  It would be nice
to have...  I don't have an 840AV or 660AV...  ;-)

> Would a Farallon 10/100 NuBus ethernet-card help and is it supported ?

The Farallon is not.  I have a couple of Asante cards that are at least
almost working.  They are supported by the if_sm driver (sm* at nubus?),
but unfortunately, they can only do half-duplex 100Mbit.  I haven't seen
one of the Farallon cards and don't know what chipset they use (the
Asante uses the SMC FEAST).

-allen

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