On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Andrey Petrov wrote:

> > However, if you are correct, where exactly is my problem. It is clear
> > that something is wrong on my i386 machine. If it's not NetBSD, there
> > must be something wrong with the hardware. I'm thinking that the
> > only thing it can be is the motherboard, because I've already tried
> > changing all the other components (NIC, disks, IDE interface).
>
> You tried that but still: probably good NIC should help,

I was under the impression that 3com 3c905 should be a good NIC?

> Also, you can wire those 2 machines with cross wire and set media
> explictly to avoid possible hub/switch incorrect duplex/half-duplex
> mode.

Hmm. I find it hard to understand how incorrect media would affect
the transfer speed only when a disk write at one end is added to the
equation.