Le Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 12:30:36PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt �crivait/wrote: > On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 11:34 +0100, Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > My 12" PowerBook, bought in may 2004 with a 60Gb hard disk, is mostly > > running Linux/Debian/Sid with self-compiled kernel 2.6.10 with > > powermanagement & lid management patches (I'm booting MacOSX only for > > Wifi and -very rarely [did it 2 times]- for watching DVDs) and its > > hard disk is dying. I use it mostly with the cover closed, thru ssh, > > using the AC power supply. But I do carry it and use it on batteries > > when needed... > > I never use mines with the lid closed, I don't trust the thermal cooling > enough in that case. Also, MacOS X has aggressive thermal control, > ramping down the CPU freq when the machine overheats, etc..., while I > think we have quite dumber one. > > > Does the power management of Linux (which did make a progress lately) > > has a practical influence on hard disk reliability. I think that > > having the hard disk failing after 9 months is disappointing. > > Was the hard disk overheating ? It may just be a bad HD, that happens. I > have a long experience of Mac laptops, and have had several cases of HD > failing before a full year. > > > I intend to replace the hard disk with something a bit better (80Gb, > > 5400RPM), like eg a 80Gb hard disk 5400RPM eg Hitachi Travelstar 5K80 > > 80 Go 2"1/2 5400 RPM 8 Mb/cache or Samsung MP0804H. Is it a reasonable > > choice (notably in terms of reliability & power consumption).
I bought a Samsung HD, and installed it. However, apparently, I forced to much when closing the box and the CDROM don't eject properly (and I tried with the wrong CDROM inside) I don't have any other Apple (or PowerBook) machines but I do have 2 PC/x86 running Debian, and I downloaded and installed the cross-compiler (& cross-linker) packages for them: binutils-powerpc_2.15 gcc-3.3-powerpc_3.3-3.3.3 Now, I'm trying to either boot using a USB key or thru the net. But I am a bit stuck. I am able to boot to openfirmware. But I cannot understand how to boot an USB key? Does it has to be mac-fdisk formatted? I may go to cross-compiling a linux kernel (I was able to backup the latest kernel tree on my powerbook). but I'm not sure to understand how to cross-make (on a PC) a PowerBook bootable USB key (I need the minimum for netinstalling debian Sid, and for running fdisk on it). I'm lacking basic knowledge of openfirmware. How can I know if my disk is detected. It seems listed by devalias or dir / ls Any hints? -- Basile STARYNKEVITCH http://starynkevitch.net/Basile/ email: basile<at>starynkevitch<dot>net aliases: basile<at>tunes<dot>org = bstarynk<at>nerim<dot>net 8, rue de la Fa�encerie, 92340 Bourg La Reine, France -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
