Hey All,

BTW things are going better. Network working and it usually boots instead 
although still says DEFAULT Catch sometimes.

I've read back through most of the relevant L2 cache related posts in the 
list and scoured the docs but I still have some lingering questions...

I have a 1 meg L2 cache dimm installed on my 7500's motherboard. My CPU is 
an XLR8 604e card that to the best of my knowledge has no L2 cache on 
board. In OFW I can see the l2-cache device beneath the PowerPC,604 device. 
Should the kernel report it as being present even if it isn't configured? 
Might the kernel be using it and just not telling me? None of the relevant 
Apple tech notes seem to say if it's pipeline burst or what? I have 
compiled the kernel with options 
L2CR_CONFIG="(L2CR_L2E|L2SIZ_1M|L2CLK_20|L2RAM_PIPELINE_BURST)" but don't 
know if that's right. I guess the bottom line is, given my particular 
hardware, what do I have to do to enable the L2 cache?

The other thing I'm curious about is should I be doing anything to optimize 
harddrive performance? I have a Barracuda fast scsi-2 drive and the 7500 
internal bus is also fast scsi-2. Raw throughput is right where it should 
be at 4Mbps, the max async speed the drive supports. But it seems to thrash 
like crazy when dealing with lots of small files. I mean it goes nuts. I 
deleted the kernel source directory tree, it took about 5 minutes and my 
drive made so much noise I thought I could pick out the final movement of 
the 1812 overture in it. Is there anything like hdparm in linux that I 
should run to tweak the settings?

Here is my current dmesg output.
NetBSD 1.5.2 (POWERCRAP-2) #1: Thu Aug 30 01:08:40 PDT 1956
     root@powercrap:/usr/src/sys/arch/macppc/compile/POWERCRAP-2
CPU: 604ev (Revision 204)
total memory = 32768 KB
avail memory = 23780 KB
using 1280 buffers containing 5120 KB of memory
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0bandit0 at mainbus0
pci0 at bandit0 bus 0
pci0: i/o space, memory space enabled
pchb0 at pci0 dev 11 function 0
pchb0: Apple Computer Bandit Host-PCI Bridge (rev. 0x03)
obio0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0: addr 0xf3000000
53c94 at obio0 offset 0x10000 not configured
mc0 at obio0 offset 0x11000: irq 14,2,3: address 00:05:02:c0:03:67
zsc0 at obio0 offset 0x13000: irq 15,16
zstty0 at zsc0 channel 0
zstty1 at zsc0 channel 1
awacs at obio0 offset 0x14000 not configured
swim3 at obio0 offset 0x15000 not configured
adb0 at obio0 offset 0x16000 irq 18: 1 targets
akbd0 at adb0 addr 2: extended keyboard
wskbd0 at akbd0: console keyboard
mesh0 at obio0 offset 0x18000 irq 13: 50MHz, SCSI ID 7
scsibus0 at mesh0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
nvram0 at obio0 offset 0x1d000
bandit1 at mainbus0
pci1 at bandit1 bus 1
pci1: i/o space, memory space enabled
ofb0 at pci1 dev 11 function 0: Apple Computer Control
ofb0: 640 x 480, 8bpp
wsdisplay0 at ofb0: console (std, vt100 emulation), using wskbd0
Apple Computer PlanB (undefined subclass 0x00, revision 0x01) at pci1 dev 
13 function 0 not configured
scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
sd0 at scsibus0 target 1 lun 0: <SEAGATE, ST15150N, 0023> SCSI1 0/direct fixed
sd0: 4095 MB, 3712 cyl, 21 head, 107 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 8388315 sectors
cd0 at scsibus0 target 2 lun 0: <MATSHITA, CD-ROM CR-8005, 2.0h> SCSI2 
5/cdrom removable
boot device: sd0
root on sd0a dumps on sd0b
root file system type: ffs

Thanks.
-Jeff