On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:47:10PM +0100, Arne Kaiser wrote:
> Hi there,
> I just installed a second 3ware escalade 8006 controller in a Netbsd 2.0.2
> system (AMD 64). The first on runs fine since several month with two
> mirrored 250 GB harddisks, the second (with two 50 GB HDs) seems to be fine,
> but when I start newfs /dev/ld1e the formatting process is extremely slow

Did you really use /dev/ld1e, or /dev/rld1e ? I'm not sure why but
using block devices (/dev/ld1e in your case) with userland tools that
do I/O make things extremely slow. Using the character device is fine.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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