Re: Update on Thecus N2100 support in Debian

[Martin Guy <martinwguy@yahoo.it>]

> On Sunday 15 February 2009, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
>  > Since Debian lenny (version 5.0) has now been released (see
>  > <http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090214>), I thought I'd provide
>  > an update on Thecus N2100 support in Debian.
>  >  - There's still no DMA support, but I will provide an unofficial
>  >    kernel for lenny that has some DMA patches:
>  >    http://www.cyrius.com/debian/iop/n2100/dma.html

This has increased the measured maximum linear disk reading speed(*)
from 39MB/s to 67MB/s. It's been up for a week, sometimes under a
heavy workload (big compilations) and has so far proved as stable as a
rock.

Cheers

   M

(*) # dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null bs=1M