Subject: Re: HD speed
To: Paulo Alexandre Pinto Pires <pappires@vortex.del.ufrj.br>
From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
List: port-sun3
Date: 08/10/1996 12:37:50
On Sat, 10 Aug 1996, Paulo Alexandre Pinto Pires wrote:

> I have spoken to some people in IRC who run NetBSD-1.1 in 3/60
> out of the box and they told me that they have good results.
> 
> Well, about 75kb/s is bad, but I tried to have this machine be
> the boot server for another 3/60 and the performance was still
> worse: 4.5kb/s!!  It is almost slower than a modem!!!! :((((

  Have you set si options?  If not, read the docs.  Currently, the GENERIC
kernel uses only safest possible options for the si controller.

Tom