[Soekris] ComBIOS 1.29 slowdown ?

[Luc Moreault]

> 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.
> 
I updated 1.29 to 1.30
fixed my slowdown problem, it was after boottime on FreeBSD (NanoBSD) running on a 2GB CF card.

Problem solved,
Thank you,
Luc