I have a Quadra 800 and 610, and (please don't shoot me) I've found
OpenBSD 2.8 Scsi is running faster than the NetBSD 1.5 on the same
drives.  

I thought it was my drives at first, but the 1G Quantum SCSI drive I
tried in my Quadra 800 runs very fast in my Sparc SS1+ (a slower
computer, as the MHz goes). The SS1+ is running NetBSD 1.5 also. 

My thoughts are, if this is a production box, just wait till 1.5.1 comes
out and the patch to make the SCSI work faster on the Quadra's is merged
into the system.

"J. Seth Henry" wrote:
> 
> I've seen a lot on this list regarding the SCSI problems with NetBSD/mac68k
> 1.5 on Quadra's. Has anyone done a speed comparison between older kernels
> and the _patched_ 1.5? I only have the one system, and it is in constant use
> (so I hate to break it just for testing purposes)
> 
> In short, are there any compelling reasons, beyond having the latest and
> greatest, for upgrading to 1.5 on my Quadra 800? It is a production server
> (for a small workgroup), and has been trouble free for a long time. It is a
> bit pokey though, especially on disk access. I've run find searches that
> took over 30 minutes on a system with only 2Gb of disk space!
> 
> Thanks,
> Seth Henry
> jshenry@net-noise.com

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Pat Wendorf