Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 15:44:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Review this hardware please Message-ID: <199505221944.PAA21749@hda.com>
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Our ISP, Intuitive Information (iii.net) is installing their new Pentium system. Up to now they've been using a 486DX2-66 running FreeBSD 1.1, and now they are upgrading to a PCI Pentium running 1.1.5.1. With the recent comments about Buslogic controllers and broken motherboards I'd like to bounce the configuration off the group so that we can help head off some problems. The system will apparently be going into production tonight. This will be their login system and will be a heavily used system. Some of the subscribers have been complaining about FreeBSD 1.1 stability (even when it is broken hardware) and posting "why don't you get a real system like BSDI" comments. So here is their description of the new system, a few more details, and the dmesg output. > iii2 is a Pentium P90 (Intel SX957) with an Intel Neptune > motherboard with the Neptune PCI chipset. We've got 64 Meg of memory in > it. The 32-bit, fast SCSI-2 controller (to which we'll migrate the SCSI disks > soon) can transfer 132 MBytes/sec in burst mode. It's a BusLogic BT-946C. I got this additional info from them: > Neptune-ISA Rev 1.A MBD-P90NG2 > PCI chipset: Intel S82433NX > Award ISA/PCI 586 Bios > Intel SX957 P90 CPU > BT-946C Rev Ae Here is their dmesg output: > FreeBSD 1.1.5.1(RELEASE) (III1) #0: Thu May 18 00:49:10 EDT 1995 > wink@nic.iii.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/III1-04 > CPU: i586 (586-class CPU) Id = 0x524 Origin = "GenuineIntel" > real memory = 66715648 (16288 pages) > avail memory = 64745472 (15807 pages) > using 819 buffers containing 6709248 bytes of memory > Probing for devices on the ISA bus: > pc0 at 0x60-0x6f irq 1 on motherboard > pc0: type color > sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa > sio0: type 16450 > fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa > fdc0: [0: fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in] > wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa > wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <WDC AC2540H> > wd0: 515MB (1056384 total sec), 1048 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, bytes/sec 512 > wdc0: unit 1 (wd1): <Conner Peripherals 540MB - CFS540A> > wd1: 516MB (1058400 total sec), 1050 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, bytes/sec 512 > bt0: PCI/EISA/VLB(32bit) bus detected > bt0: reading board settings, eisa dma, int=11 > bt0: version 4.2, sync, parity, 32 mbxs, 32 ccbs > bt0: targ 0 offset=08, period=200nsec > bt0: Enabling Round robin scheme > bt0 at 0x330 irq 11 on isa > bt0 targ 0 lun 0: type 0(direct) fixed SCSI1 > bt0 targ 0 lun 0: <QUANTUM P105S 910-10-94x8.84> > sd0: 100MB (205075 total sec), 1019 cyl, 6 head, 33 sec, bytes/sec 512 > ed0 at 0x280-0x29f irq 5 on isa > ed0: address 00:20:c5:00:fa:8d, type NE2000 (16 bit) > npx0 on motherboard Questions? Comments? Criticisms? -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267
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