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From: davidg@percy.rain.com (David Greenman)
Subject: Re: New kernel in NetBSD 0.9 and what is an ed0 ?
Organization: Percy's BSDI, Portland, OR, USA
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1993 15:09:48 GMT
Message-ID: <CCBM4D.71I@percy.rain.com>
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>>> > What is an ed0 ?
>>> 
>>> actually, it's a completely rewritten 8390-based-board driver,
>>> with *much* higher performance.
>>> 
>>> re: those warnings: umm, *chuckle*  you didn't see them before
>
>Oh ? I tried it when it was posted on the net with a wd8003, dont
>know the exact type, but it was *slower* then the stock we driver!

That was a while ago, and since then the performance for wd8003
boards has improved considerably. I hope you'll give the driver
another try. Please try to keep in mind that while I've tested
the driver with most of the common SMC/WD/3Com boards, I don't
own one of each of them, and so I rely on reports from others on
how well it is/is not working. I might have found the problems
much earlier if you had told of your experiance.

-DG