Subject: Re: Another one...
To: Ben Harris <bjh21@cam.ac.uk>
From: Michael Lorenz <ml@rz.uni-potsdam.de>
List: port-arm26
Date: 05/02/2000 20:47:43
Greetings !

> > ... then loaded the kernel and died. Second time I remembered that I had
> > to switch to 256 colours first...
> *grin*  Anyone feel like fixing rasops?
My knowledge of Acorn hardware is - well, limited. Next to nonexistant.
What about switching the screenmode in BBBB ?

> > ... the usual Acorn stuff, then
> > podulebus0 at ioc0 bank 4
> > Castle Technology SCSI + CDFS Drivers (0055:00f6) at podulebus0 slot 0
> > not configured
> > ea0 at podulebus0 slot 1: SEEQ8005 address f2:f2:f2:f2:f2:f2 buffer RAM
> > failed self test, 131071 faults
> 
> Pity.  I'll have a look and see if there's anything obvious I've missed in
> the code, but I'm not greatly optimistic.
Hmm, ARMLinux didn't like it too - my board is made by ANT, not Acorn.
Someone told me that there are some rather suble differences between the
ANT and the Acorn ether3 ?
 
> > ... more Acorn stuff ...
> > cpu0: 10000 loops in 1261 microseconds, delay factor = 1
> 
> Hmm.  My division routines are definitely screwed since I moved to the
> powerpc build machine.
(grin) too fast ? 

> > Would it help to put the ea0 in slot 0 ?
> I doubt it. 
Any idea what it could be ?

bye
Michael