>Hi,

Hello,

>I've just installed NetBSD/mac68k 1.5 on a Quadra 650 and notice very slow 
>disk performance.  I've included output from bonnie, uname, df and dmesg.  
>Any ideas?

Yes :-)

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>ns1# dmesg
>[ preserving 417041 bytes of netbsd a.out symbol table ]
>Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
>    The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
>Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
>    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
>
>NetBSD 1.5 (GENERIC) #0: Sun Nov 19 14:20:10 PST 2000
             *******

You to recompile a kernel with the esp driver in version 1.27 or higher. 
In order to do that, you should get sources of NetBSD-current.

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