Re: which mac to buy?
"Christian T. Steigies" wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 01:26:25PM +0000, James P. Schmidt wrote:
> > ebay has a quadra 700, 8/80 (stock configs) for $10 right now... hell,
> > there's an 840AV *with* monitor for $20... most of the older 040 models
> > had AAUI, so Ethernet is just a matter of getting a transceiver.
> in the US... maybe I will buy such a one, when/if I get a job there.
>
> > Now, what does "SCSI is not supported, neither ADB" mean? I've installed
> http://www.mac.linux-m68k.org/development/macspecs.html
> > debian on my quadra 800, which has scsi and adb; does debian not do those
> > devices? Every Mac ever made (except for the iMacs and the 128/512/Plus
> it the kernel, not debian. i was talking about the 950, according to
> macspecs, it boots, but has no SCSI neither ADB nor serial support.
> Obviously i do not have such a machine to confirm this...
>
Completely out of date. The Quadra 950 works fine as long as you tell
the penguin booter to use only 1 SCSI bus. There is an error in the
code that causes the external bus to hang if the kernel attempts to
initialize it. Otherwise the Quadra 950 is a fine m68k Linux box. The
SCSI driver will probably get fixed in the next few months.
> > machines from 1984) supports both scsi and adb right out of the box, so I'm
> > a bit confused.
> Its a mac, thats seems to be part of the business.
>
> Christian
>
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Ray Knight
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Potato on a Quadra 950 w/ kernel 2.2.16
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