Re: Official TC3 powerpc image #1 seems small
On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 10:34:48PM +0200, Frank Ronneburg wrote:
> Quoting Jim Westveer <jwest@netnw.com>:
> >
> > I just noticed that the Official TC3 powerpc image #1 seems
> > quite small.
> >
> > 585216000 Jul 30 12:37 potato-powerpc-1.raw
>
> My self made image are also small:
> fr@linux:~$ ls -lrt /home/ftp/images/powerpc/
> insgesamt 1985524
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 593192960 Aug 3 17:17 potato-powerpc-1.raw
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 676982784 Aug 3 17:19 potato-powerpc-2.raw
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 565176320 Aug 3 17:21 potato-powerpc-3.raw
>
> But we need 3 CDs in any case...
This is probably because there's a lot of packages that aren't build on
powerpc.
> Jep. I have tested then on a iMac Rev A. Works fine, but...
>
> My iMac has a Formac SCSI Card / iProRaid (only for Rev. A & B iMacs),
> which has a NCR 53c875. With this Card the Kernel loops. Now i
> have removed the Card and everything works fine.
>
> This does not happend with bootfloppys Version 2.2.15 ! It
> is an new Bug with 2.2.16, but only with iMacs Rev A & B with this
> Card.
Because it was a module until then.
> I think building this driver as a module would help.
That's not an option, IMO. There's a new G4 config that includes the
NCR as the only controller, and the driver works fine for it. Talk to
the linuxppc-dev list about this and see if someone can track it down,
I guess. Sorry.
Dan
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