>I have some development boards based on the EBSA285 with integrated
>Promise 20262 IDE controllers and 13GB Quantum Fireball CR
>disks. Currently, they're running a slightly patched version of
>2.2.7-rmk4, and the disk performance is horrible -- peaks at a bit
>over 6MB/sec while chewing up all of the CPU. Since I want to use them
>as servers, this isn't really good enough.
If the 20262 is the UDMA66 version, I have a feeling it is only properly
supported by 2.3 kernels.
>Oh -- I'm building my kernels with gcc and binutils from the
>gcc-2.95.1-1nw5 and binutils-2.9.1.0.25-1nw2 RPMs from
>ftp.netwinder.org. Is this fine, or should I be using something else?
That should be OK, though newer versions do exist and that binutils in
particular has some nasty bugs.
p.
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