On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 02:42:48PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> Anyway it seems that I'm out of luck with this machine for now: it's a
> 601 (could be added to the hardware page as unsupported).

Aha! So there exists an OF machine that's not the 7200 but has a
601!

Was this 8200 a Europe-only thing, or was it marketed as a business
(rather than consumer) product?

> For fun, I tried to netboot it (1.0.5 OF), it dies when loading ofwboot.xcf:
> 0 > boot enet file: 132.227.63.44,ofwboot.xcfloading XCOFF
> tsize=BF00 dsize=14E4 bsize=1608 entry=600000 
> SECTIONS:
> .text    00600000 00600000 0000BF00 000000E0
> .data    0060C000 0060C000 000014E4 0000BFE0
> .bss     0060D4E8 0060D4E8 00001608 00000000
> loading .text, done..
> loading .dataCLAIM failed
>  ok
> 0 > 

Yep. We don't play nice with the 601 since it's pretty different
from the later 60xs and G3s.

It's not theoretically difficult to fix (not that I speak from
experience), but up till now the only machine (well, the only one I
get the impression most USA citizens knew of ;^>) that had a PCI
bus and a 601 was the 7200 line, which just made it seem like the
work wasn't worth the gain till some other kinks are worked out of
the port. (After there's 601 AND nubus support both, we can support
the first generation of PowerMacs, which would be pretty cool.)

> A second netboot attemps fails:
> 0 > boot enet file: 132.227.63.44,
> TFTP timeout
> TFTP timeout
> [...]

Hrm. Maybe left the ethernet hardware in an unuseable state?

       ~ g r @ eclipsed.net