I worked on the S900 for a couple hours more today. Ditched the old
hard drive that was spewing SCSI errors and reinstalled OS9/BootX
from scratch on the "new" drive. On reinstalling debian I noticed
that there was an optional item to configure the PCMCIA interface
that I hadn't noticed previously. On this screen were checkboxes for
PCMCIA, serial, and CD-ROM. PCMCIA was checked by default (strange)
and CD-ROM was unchecked (even stranger). I unchecked PCMCIA and
checked CD-ROM.
No go.
The hated "Init ID 1 respawning too fast" are still alive and well.
My complete configuration:
Umax S900 (8500 clone)
850 mb Quantum HDD
stock 2x Apple CD pulled from older PowerMac
48 mb of RAM
3dfx Voodoo3 2000 PCI video
180 mhz 604e
I have used several kernels including the kernel included with the
LinuxPPC 2000 cd I have successfully used in the past with this
machine, the 2.2.18 and 2.2.19 kernels, even 2.4.0.
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