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- From: athos@eyrie.img.com.au (David Burren)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Yet Another 386BSD 0.1 Success (also disktab query)
- Message-ID: <712470678.8199@eyrie.img.com.au>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 04:31:18 GMT
- Organization: img Consultants, Melbourne, Australia
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- I can now report 386BSD success on yet another platform:
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- 16 MHz 386SX / 2 MB RAM (unknown manufacturer)
- and
- 20 MHz 386DX / 4 MB RAM (NEC I believe)
- The DX is on loan for a while, and I've swapped all the
- following devices between the systems with no 386BSD problems.
-
- HGC video card
- WD 8013 Ethernet
- Serial card
- MFM controller
- 1.44 MB floppy
- Seagate ST4053 44 MB drive
- 1540B controller
- Quantum P40S
- (Will be reorganizing machines this weekend to )
- (free up a Miniscribe 9380S to load etc01/src01)
-
- Although the installation notes say that 40 MBytes is the minimum to load
- bin01, I found it wouldn't fit on the Seagate with the uncompressed
- distribution as well. I got around that by hooking up the Quantum as /tmp.
-
- I'm now trying to work out what to do with the Seagate, as a quick benchmark
- shows it up as being well over twice as slow as the Quantum on reads, and at
- _least_ 5 times as slow on writes. I'll have to try bonnie on it soon to get
- some accurate figures.
-
- As for installing onto the Miniscribe, at least I still have the bin01 files
- on the Quantum... mread is pretty bloody slow...
-
- Finally, is there anyone else collecting disktab entries? The only ones
- I found on kirk and agate were for a small number of MFM/IDE/ESDI disks,
- and I'm sure a lot more than that have been written.
- Where should I send my new entries? If I was ftp'able here I'd think about
- organizing an archive, but...
-
- - David B.
- athos@img.com.au
-