Subject: 7300 w/g4 upgrade [possibly OT about apple hardware]
To: None <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: Bruce O'Neel <edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 05/26/2005 09:13:09
[possibly Apple hardware and not NetBSD]
Hi,

I put a G4 upgrade in my 7300 last night and I wasn't 100% sucessful.
Well the card fit and NetBSD 3.99.3? booted and all seemed fine,
and then I tried to unzip/untar a file.  Eventual hang.

Reboot, fsck, try again.  Same.  Check file on another system, it's
fine.

Repeat a few more times.  No go.  It kind of felt like things were
fine until most of the memory got used.  Just for reference this
system has been rock solid under 3.99.3 for weeks at a time under
somewhat heavy load.

Taking a guess here is it possible that memory that worked fine for
a 604e/200 would be too slow for G4/350?  Or, since I don't have
MacOS on this system does the install software for the upgrade
do something in OpenFirmware?

Thanks, and sorry for the clueless questions...

cheers

bruce

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