At 12:14 AM +0100 11/1/02, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
>I tried BSD 1.5 on a 840. The SCSI lacks DMA so it was unusable slow for
>compiling / tar / compress. Usual build&compile stuff.

840AV shares little with the 800 except the case. The 840AV was the 
first Mac with SCSI manager 4.3 built-into the ROM as well as the 
DMA, so its SCSI is sufficiently different than all others to pose a 
hassle.

Mike

>on 10/31/02 11:11 PM, Eric J. Feldhusen at efeldhusen@chartermi.net wrote:
>
>>  If someone could point me to the directions, I have two
>>  Quadra 800's that I could add some ram and put a couple of
>>  monster scsi drives on for binary package builds. Between
>>  those and the cable modem, I'd like to help out since I've
>>  been getting years of excellent use out of my old Macs.
>>
>>  Eric Feldhusen


-- 
Bikers don't *DO* taglines.