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Re: Newbie Install Question on Umax S900 (and now 7200! and 7300?)



Nope. Replacing the drive seems to have done away with the SCSI errors I was having problems with.

--Ted

>>> Bruce McIntyre <brucemac@bigfoot.com> - 1/30/01 2:16 AM >>>
Before the errors, did you get any warnings, or go into fsck ?


At 1:55 AM -0800 30/1/01, Ted Swinyar wrote:
>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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