[ On Thursday, May 2, 2002 at 16:27:28 (+0100), Dr R.S. Brooks wrote: ]
> Subject: Support for Intel STL2 M/B
>
> We have just bought 3 machines with the STL2 motherboard for use as
> webcaches (running squid).

At this point your best option is to run FreeBSD-4.5 on them.

I have three such machines now running FreeBSD-4.4 and 4.5 and squid and
they've been stellar performers.  FreeBSD can also take at least some
advantage of the optional second processor (one of the squids I set up
and help run is running on two processors).

NetBSD-1.5W just does not run on them with more than one Ultra-160 drive
attached on the U-160 bus, and the problems I saw when trying to make
them work look very much like what you've reported.  The ahc driver
needs to be re-ported from FreeBSD before we can expect these machines
to perform properly with NetBSD again.

I have a couple more of them running NetBSD-1.5W, one as a database and
general administration server, but each has only one Ultra-160 drive
attached, and of course it doesn't attach at 160MB/s, but only 80MB/s.
In this example there is a second drive on the second bus:

ahc0 at pci1 dev 4 function 0
ahc0: interrupting at irq 9
ahc0: aic7899 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs
scsibus0 at ahc0: 16 targets, 8 luns per target
ahc1 at pci1 dev 4 function 1
ahc1: interrupting at irq 11
ahc1: aic7899 Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs
scsibus1 at ahc1: 16 targets, 8 luns per target
scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <SEAGATE, ST39205LW, 5063> SCSI3 0/direct fixed
sd0: 8750 MB, 19036 cyl, 2 head, 470 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 17921835 sectors
sd0: sync (25.0ns offset 63), 16-bit (80.000MB/s) transfers, tagged queueing
scsibus1: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
sd1 at scsibus1 target 9 lun 0: <IBM, DGHS09U, 0350> SCSI3 0/direct fixed
sd1: 8748 MB, 8152 cyl, 10 head, 219 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 17916240 sectors
sd1: sync (50.0ns offset 15), 16-bit (40.000MB/s) transfers, tagged queueing


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