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Date:      Mon, 24 Feb 1997 01:41:42 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, frankd@yoda.fdt.net
Cc:        bkogawa@primenet.com, dkelly@hiwaay.net, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: _big_ IDE disks?
Message-ID:  <199702231441.BAA01194@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>> The fast-i586-copyout option is not enabled in 2.2-GAMMA.  I forget what
>> it was in ALPHA.  It was either not enabled or buggy (it caused panics).
>
>Is there a way to enable this in 2.2-GAMMA? This is what I am seeing here:

Update to the 2.2 npx.c.

>Kryten /usr/ports/distfiles % dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1m
>count=1000
>1000+0 records in
>1000+0 records out
>1048576000 bytes transferred in 16.608622 secs (63134437 bytes/sec)
>
>Do these numbers seem reasonable for a P6 200 w/64 megs EDO RAM?

They seem a bit low.  I would hope for 80-90MB/sec.  The fast-i586-copyout
wouldn't affect this because it is an option for i586's.

Bruce



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