On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 07:18:30PM +0100, Andrea Franceschini wrote:
> Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 07:18:34PM +0100, Andrea Franceschini wrote:
> > > I tried using softdep as a mount parameter and i get better performance
> > > only during write phase.
> > >
> > > I want to know the exact parameters to give in kernel config.
> > >
> > > Actually,I use the following:
> > >
> > > flags 0x01 for wdc0 controller
> > 
> > Only needed if your controller is not known from pciide.
> 
> Without  these settings i was not able to obtain speed over 4MB/s

Then I suspect your controller isn't knon from pciide. What NetBSD release
are you running, and what controller do you have (dmesg, please) ?

> So i must argue that pciide on NEtBSD is slower than FreeBSD?

No, just that your controller isn't fully supported by pciide in this
NetBSD release. Please send me the infos and I'll tell you if a more recent
release supports it, or I'll send you a patch to add full support for
it.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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