As for my setup, I have a 12GB drive, ~4GB is for "/", 1.2GB is swap, and ~6GB+ is for /home.
As for the ext3 filesystem, the filesystem itself should be pretty solid. It is a journaled filesystem unlike ext2. I have a friend that swears by reizerfs, but I am not sure if this is available with our current kernel we are working with. Are you sure the file system itself was corrupted by the pmu problems? I am currently having problems booting using any of the kernels, including Tobias', but I know it isn't the file system. It is simply freezing at the exit:mmu section and/or shutting off at that point without warning.
(Tobias, I am looking into what may be causing this and will report anything I can find, as I had hoped your kernel would eliminate these problems. oh well).
icedtrip
On 3/7/06, Vito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Tobias
Well if I putt the drive in after the boot sequence it would spin in mac os9 but not read, however if it was put in before boot it would givethe black screen of death. This teac was taken from an IBM pc laptop, its numbers are : TEAC CD-W28E -0B1 - u
Part NO. 19770820-B1 - DC 5V 2.4A rev:301 mfr June 2002
I'm not sure about the adapter board number as the one from the original apple drive fites nicely onto the new drive onces its own adapter is removed. You may be right about the connection not being snug. But the only way that I could be sure about that is to take the laptop apart when making the connection.
I'd lie to figure out how to get it going, and when I was putting it together I was thinking to myself - that Tobias is a clever fellow to have figured this out.
By the way, have you any ideas about a less breakable file system than ext3 for debppc linux?
I am going to start reinstalling today or tommorow. I broke my ext3 system because of pmu problems.
Also, is there any advantage to having all the file system on the / partitions as opposed to having a partition for / , home and whatever else? Of course it is a given that I will have a large swap. Ice trip wrote something about this but he didn't give an idea about size or rational.
I am leaning toward putting the whole system on / but I am hoping that there is a less breakable type of file system.
Thanks,
Vito
----- Original Message ----
From: Tobias Netzel < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: nubus-pmac-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Tuesday, March 7, 2006 8:17:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: w28e cd rw
I have tried three different drives and never had the problem you have
got.
Maybe you have to get a different firmware that has to be uploaded on
an x86-PC.
The exact type/version of my drive is "TEAC CD-W28E-093-U", Revision C,
manufactured January 2002.
The type/version of my adaptor board is "PC5 T/B 12XCDROM REV:3D",
"19979424 TYT".
Are you sure everything was conntected tightly?
Tobias
Am 07.03.2006 um 08:25 schrieb Vito:
> To Tobias and all who are interested in the possibility of having a rw
> crom drive in the powerbook 1400c. I bought a teac w28 rwcdrom. Upon
> 1st inspection it appears not suited for the 1400c, however, when one
> removes the port connector from the back, one finds that it is only an
> adaptor, and further that the adaptor and front brvel from the
> original mac cdrom 12x drive fit nicely onto the read write teac w28e.
>
> Now for the bad news, after having put the rw teac into the old apple
> 12x read only drive case and putting it into the expansion bay , that
> when I turned the computer on , as soon as it sees the drive -
> dingdong and the black screen of death appears.
>
> What do you thing dead drive, i/o problem, adaptor failure. I will
> probably put the old drive back and hope that it still works, and
> return the new rw teac if I can get my money back.
>
> Close but no cigar. Has anyone experienced the same problem?
>
>
> Vito
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Tobias Netzel < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: nubus-pmac-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Sent: Monday, March 6, 2006 2:53:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: w28e cd rw
>
> Hi Vito,
>
> I needed to open the case of the media bay module. Mine contained a
> TEAC 10x (Apple claimed 12x) CD-ROM drive whose form factor is very
> close to the standard slim-line CD-ROM drives. In order to dissassemble
> I needed to remove the four screws on the sides of the module and pull
> the grey bottom case. The connector adaptor board fitted with the
> CD-W28E.
> Only one of the mounting screw holes was at the same position but
> that's sufficient.
>
> I don't know if the media bay case of the 6x and 8x units are
> different.
>
> Tobias
>
>
> Am 06.03.2006 um 21:57 schrieb Vito:
>
>> Tobias,
>>
>> Did you have to disassemble the origninal cd rom drive and take the
>> innards of the teac drive and drop it into the old original mac cdrom
>> drive casing to make it work , or did it just fit in the bay right out
>> of the box.
>>
>> Vito
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Tobias Netzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: nubus-pmac-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 1, 2006 11:04:52 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] CD Drive Upgrade a No Go
>>
>>
>> Am 02.03.2006 um 06:06 schrieb icedtrip:
>>
>>> Loosk like I learned the hard way, but it doesn't look like I will be
>>> able to upgrade my CD-ROM drive with my current model. A website I
>>> came across led me to believe that all the 1400 Drives could be
>>> upgraded (including the 6x, 8x, and 12x), but this looks to not be
>>> true. I have an 8x and purchased through Ebay a teac 8x CD-RW drive
>>> to do the upgrade. As it turns out, my drive doesn't have to correct
>>> adaptor.
>>> Does anyone know how I could do this with my current drive. Looks
>>> like if I want the 12x drive, I will have to spend $30 on ebay to buy
>>> one whereas the teac only cost me $10. Wouldn't I only need the
>>> connector itself? Is there anywhere I could buy one of these.
>>>
>> Yes, you only need the adapter of a 12x unit. Perhaps you could wait
>> for a defective one appearing on ebay.
>>
>>> I was hoping to get a CD-RW in this thing to be able to burn to data
>>> discs when need be. Once I do get this up and running, what burning
>>> apps would be rocommended?
>>>
>> I have been using Xcdroast as a frontend to cdrecord. However to work
>> with the 800x600 resolution one has to pass it a special command line
>> parameter and then the window is too big for the screen so one has to
>> move the window around to be able to access all buttons. But it is
>> working quite well.
>> You will also need the SCSI emulation kernel extension and to disable
>> the IDE CD-ROM driver.
>> In MacOS I have been using Charismac Discribe that is available as a
>> trial version whose trial period can be overriden by deleting a hidden
>> file in the System Folder. I prefer Discribe to Xcdroast because it is
>> very easy to create bootable HFS CDs with it what I need for the
>> miboot
>> ISOs.
>>
>>
>>> icedtrip
>>>
>>
>> Tobias
>>
>>
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