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Date:      Sun, 19 Sep 1999 21:53:23 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        mjacob@feral.com
Cc:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, dg@root.com, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: User block device access (was: cvs commit: src/sys/miscfs/specfs spec_vnops.c src/sys/sys vnode.h src/sys/kern vfs_subr.c) 
Message-ID:  <17897.937770803@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 19 Sep 1999 12:49:31 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909191247480.42176-100000@semuta.feral.com> 

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909191247480.42176-100000@semuta.feral.com>, Matthew
 Jacob writes:
>
>> Yes indeed there are: lack of funds for much needed HW upgrades.
>> This is actually a 1.8G Quantum Prodrive I inherited when a former
>> instance of freefall had a disk upgrade in early 1995 and currently
>> the only scsi disk I have to test with.
>
>Where are you at, physically, Poul? I'll buy you a wide/ultra SCSI
>controller and a couple 7200 RPM disks if this will help in getting
>fair performance estimates/evaluations....

I'm over in Denmark...  It is more trouble with customs than it is
worth the effort, don't worry about it.  I have a couple of pretty
good ATA disks which with sos' new driver does a good enough job.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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