hi. i just did an openbsd 4.3 current install and the cf card is a *lot* faster. i used another card (sandisk, SDCFX3-4096, i didn't want to overwrite my running system), but this card should not that be faster than the other one (transcend), so i think it's indeed 4.2/4.3 related. unfortunatly i have some problems with named (it's not starting, the config/zones aren't found, i guess some chroot issue related to the snapshot? since i orderd the cd set i'll wait for the release) und so i'm back on 4.2... :(
some tests: sandisk, on my mac via usb adapter: dd if=/dev/zero of=./test.dd bs=1m count=200 200+0 records in 200+0 records out 209715200 bytes transferred in 15.555968 secs (13481334 bytes/sec) sandisk, on the alix via cf slot with 4.3: ~10mb/s (sorry, i lost the output and don't want to change cards and reboot again) transcend (the one with the 4.2 system) mounted via usb adapter on the alix/4.3: dd if=/dev/zero of=./test.dd bs=1m count=100 100+0 records in 100+0 records out 104857600 bytes transferred in 12.910 secs (8122173 bytes/sec) transcent, 4.2 booted on the alix via cf slot dd if=/dev/zero of=./testfile bs=1k count=40000 40000+0 records in 40000+0 records out 40960000 bytes transferred in 104.284 secs (392771 bytes/sec) thanks all for the replies. manuel
