Hello,

with a bit of help from Michael (Ofb patches...) and some less-well
understood tricks (0x60FF for mesh flags...) I finally have a "new"
kernel decently usable that can at least boot and have a login before
barfing about scsi dma problems... I couldn't do this since pre 2.0...

and mc0 finally is useful...

6170568 bytes received in 00:06 (935.35 KB/s)


seems a decent d/l speed !

interestingly dhe upload speed (same file, same server)
is slower:

6170568 bytes sent in 00:08 (685.64 KB/s)

the disk is acceptable too (still wonder "why" it works with 0x60FF
flags)

              -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input--
--Random--
              -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block---
--Seeks---
Machine    MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU 
/sec %CPU
            0  3803 24.2  4186 10.2  2895  9.9 17525 99.2 74375 100.0
3008.0 84.3


probe(mesh0:0:1:0): max sync rate 10.00Mb/s
sd1 at scsibus1 target 1 lun 0: <IBM OEM, DFHSS4F, 4141> disk fixed
sd1: drive offline

(this drive apparently doesn't like async...)

thus cheers and I hope the video patches will slowly flow in
 (I have some bad news already though)

-Riccardo