[Soekris] ComBIOS 1.29 slowdown ?

[Igor Sobrado]

In message <FF29E33857B0A640AEEFB53CAADD30FC064017 at CAN-MSG.vsnl.co.in>, Luc Moreault writes:
> 
> I recently upgraded around 100 Soekris NET-4801-60 boxes combios to version 1.29 (I know... I shouldn't have done this).
> They seem to be working fine so far but I noticed some major slowdown.
> Could this be related to the LBA bug found in 1.29 ?
> I don't want to waist a whole day updating to 1.30 if it's not the case.

I have not observed a slowdown with relation to comBIOS 1.29
or comBIOS 1.30.  My net4801-60 arrived with comBIOS 1.28 in
summer 2006 and it is performing as nicely as we can expect
for a geode-based computer.

What are you noticing?  A slowdown when booting up the system?
A performance degradation in disk or network I/O transactions?
Are you using a CF as system disk or, perhaps, an internal HDD?
What operating system is running on the net4801-60 embedded computers?
FreeBSD?  NetBSD?  OpenBSD?  a Linux flavour?

Cheers,
Igor.