Subject: Re: Speed of SCSI drivers in NetBSD/arm32 1.3_Alpha
To: Kjetil B. Thomassen <kjetil@thomassen.priv.no>
From: Kim G. S. \yhus <kim@pvv.ntnu.no>
List: port-arm32
Date: 12/02/1997 18:08:20
> Now I get around 100 KB/s with a peak so far of 124 KB/s.
...
> I know that some playing around with DMA in NetBSD/arm32 has been done,
> but so far we don't have a DMA driver that works for neither the Cuman
> nor the Power-tec SCSI-2.
> 
> So, my question therefore is: Is this something that is prioritized
> very high with the NetBSD/arm32 kernel team at the moment?
...
> Somehow I doubt it, but something has to be done. We just can't
> live with this situation any longer.

I totally agree.

I have to buy a 4GB HD before Jul, (Yule) tax reasons, and I wish I could
buy a SCSI one, but I will probably buy an IDE disk since that works.
However, I am delaying it, in a faint hope of usable SCSI drivers.

Is anything going on?
Is there anything I can do?

Kim0