Subject: Re: Pathetic responses to models.html
To: Michael Wolfson <mw34@cornell.edu>
From: Chris Tribo <t1345@hopi.dtcc.edu>
List: port-macppc
Date: 06/02/2000 00:07:07
I figured that I've mentioned it at length a good number of times but to
reiterate again:
Beige PowerMac G3/DT/233 Rev 1: OpenFirmware 2.0f1
Details:
Master/Slave IDE/ATAPI buses do not work under MacOS. So far I have not
yet been able to boot from a slave device. Booting from anything other
than CD or Floppy will not work without the SystemDisk nvramrc patch that
fixes ide0, ide1, and scsi. Once this patch is applied, set load base to
600000 (I believe) and enter the boot device into OF. NetBSD see's
master/slave IDE/ATAPI just fine. No clue as to why Apple hasn't even
bothered to fix it. Bastards. The usual eveilness associated with ZIP
drives applies too, I have yet to get a Unix box I own to boot 100% of
the time with it connected. I've yet to get my hands on a Rev. 2 machine,
but I imagine it has a different OF version since master/slave do work
under MacOS on that machine (according to Apple) the internal screen and
keyboard aliases work fine for built in video and adb kb's.
I've been trying to get the machine to netboot this afternoon, if
I type boot enet:[the ip # I want to assign the machine],netbsd it
basically DoS's my whole network! Nonstop brodcasts as fast as the
hardware will transmit. It actually locked up my DECstation solid until I
unplugged it from the network. It would assign itself the ip number I
typed in, but so far I haven't been able to pass a bootfile name
properly. I'll have to reread the faq and add it to my bootptab. Any ideas
as to why it's bringing my network to a grinding halt?
Hope that is of some use.
Chris