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Date:      Fri, 14 May 1999 21:37:24 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
To:        toasty@home.dragondata.com (Kevin Day)
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Alladdin IDE slow?
Message-ID:  <199905141937.VAA17009@freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <199905140819.DAA05339@home.dragondata.com> from Kevin Day at "May 14, 1999  3:19:40 am"

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It seems Kevin Day wrote:
> 
> I'm using an Alladin chipset in a -current machine...
> 
> ad3 is the one getting the heaviest use, from me... However, I notice a few
> things from when I went to the ata driver, from a 3.1 kernel using the wd0
> driver.
> 
> The drive is now much slower... While I don't have numbers either way, this
> system acts as a nfs server. Not only are the NFS clients acting slower
> after my switch, but nearly all my nfsd's are sitting in biord or biowr now,
> where before they were usually idle.
> 
> Also, the IDE LED on the case/motherboard is now acting kinda erratic. I can
> hear the HD doing accesses when the light is off, and at times the light
> seems to stay on for 2-3 seconds, when there's no activity. (This didn't
> happen under wd0)...
> 
> Is this a case of DMA just not working well for me, or is there a magic flag
> I'm missing? This is -current from about a week ago.

Hmm, this sounds stange, I have a noard here with the Alladin on it on
which I did the support for the ata driver, it works just fine for me
at least...

-Søren


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