It may be the case that the driver is screwing it up. But I did see that the
default file system settings are not optimal enough. Some more investigation is
needed into the driver.

Bharani.

"Kevin P. Neal" wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 04:09:55PM -0800, Bharani Chadalavada wrote:
> > I am attaching the dmesg output. I am using pciide and not wdc. This brings
> > to my original question. Can something be done to make the performance
> > equal to/better than Linux??
>
> I'm tuning in a little bit late here, but are we positive the performance
> problem is the filesystem? Is it possible the problem is the pciide
> driver?
>
> Does NetBSD talk to the drive at the same levels of PIO and DMA?
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