thanks for the info chris, just for the record, i tried a lot of different things: 1. all permutations of the jumper settings 2. using the internal Mb/sec interface 3. different kernels 4. different computers 5. different ram 6. different processor / cache configurations 7. messing with termination settings of all other drives
..... in the end the drive just refused to behave.... how sad. i give up. so now i have a 4gb drive that works perfectly in Macos. the end. dylan on 03.10.14 5:37 AM, Chris Tillman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] was reported to have writen: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 12:27:29AM -0800, dylan wrote: >> few days ago tried installing woody onto an 8500. >> >> found out that there was some bad ram, so i tried the same HD in a different >> 8500 with NEW RAM (256MB). >> >> install went just fine, however, the kernel would report SCSI disk errors at >> random intervals (often when booting).... i was able to get the base system >> installed, however the machine crashed a few times while trying to extract >> the kernel src from a tar archive. (reporting numerous SCSI errors on the >> main consol).... >> >> i have tested this drive like crazy... and it *seems* fine.... linux seems >> to install without any problems onto Apple firmware HDs...however all of the >> ones that i have are only 2GB... and i would like to take advantage of this >> fast 4gb Seagate.... > > I had a lot of problems with external SCSI Mac drives and linux like this. > At one point I blamed it on not having the connector properly screwed in. > But I think maybe the timing on the external SCSI bus on oldworlds might > be difficult for the kernel to deal with somehow. Perhaps there is some > way of tuning this with hdparm or something? -- "The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." -Albert Einstein
