On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 11:44:21AM +0900, Bang Jun-Young wrote:
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root@tmp ~ # dd if=/dev/rwd0d of=/dev/null bs=8388608 count=100
100+0 records in
100+0 records out
838860800 bytes transferred in 28 secs (29959314 bytes/sec)

NetBSD 1.5P (XSERVER) #0: Thu Dec 28 19:03:21 EET 2000
    root@tmp:/usr/syssrc/sys/arch/i386/compile/XSERVER
cpu0: AMD Athlon Model 4 (Thunderbird) (686-class), 900.10 MHz
pcib0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0
pcib0: VIA Technologies VT82C686A (Apollo KX133) PCI-ISA Bridge (rev. 0x22)
pciide0 at pci0 dev 7 function 1: VIA Tech VT82C586A IDE Controller (rev.
0x10)
pciide0: bus-master DMA support present
pciide0: primary channel configured to compatibility mode
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <IBM-DTLA-307030>
wd0: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA addressing
wd0: 29314 MB, 16383 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 60036480 sectors
wd0: 32-bit data port
wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 5 (Ultra/100)

I haven't been following this thread that closely, but on my system I think
the IDE performance is quite OK.  The same disk on my older mb caused lots
and lots of CRC errors, but it seems to work on this one (KT7 or whatever
this is :-)

  -jm