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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: bde@zeta.org.au, bkogawa@primenet.com
Subject: Re: _big_ IDE disks?
Cc: dkelly@hiwaay.net, hardware@freebsd.org
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>Hm.  I can only get about 100MB/seg doing this, max (P5/133).  I did
>it with an X server running--should that matter?

No.

>{foo} ~ 0:01 ttyp3 > uname -a
>FreeBSD foo.primenet.com 2.2-ALPHA FreeBSD 2.2-ALPHA #5: Sun Jan 12 19:28:01 PST
> 1997     bkogawa@foo.primenet.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/ATWO  i386
>{foo} ~ 0:04 ttyp3 > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1m count=1000
>1000+0 records in
>1000+0 records out
>1048576000 bytes transferred in 10 secs (104857600 bytes/sec)
>
>Perhaps my BIOS is mis-set, but I wouldn't think so...?

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).

ALPHA is really old.  It is also apparently missing the 1996/11/12 change
to print the time in milliseconds and the 1996/12/14 change to print the
time in microseconds.

Bruce