Re: Promise Ultra100 PCI adapter success

2000-12-19 Thread Michel Lanners
On 18 Dec, this message from jingai echoed through cyberspace: ..I went down to the local PC wholesale shop thing and got myself a Promise Ultra100 PCI card and an 20GB IDE drive (the two together were $150.. sure beat the $260 for a SCSI drive of the same size). I was certain it

Re: [help] mesh - target 0 aborted

2000-12-19 Thread Michel Lanners
On 18 Dec, this message from Takehiko Abe echoed through cyberspace: I keep getting the follwing message at the boot time. scsi0 : MESH scsi1 : 53C94 scsi : 2 hosts. mesh: target 0 aborted The aborted target 0 is a HFS formatted internal scsi HD (quantum fireball id=0)

Re: Promise Ultra100 PCI adapter success

2000-12-19 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, jingai wrote: Just thought I'd post this, in case anyone is interested.. I've had trouble finding decent-priced SCSI drives that had built-in termination (do they even exist anymore?!?), so after going thru Do you mean `decent-priced SCSI drives' or `built-in termination'?

Re: [help] mesh - target 0 aborted

2000-12-19 Thread Takehiko Abe
Michel Lanners wrote: Try putting your Fireball on a different ID. This was FAQ a very long time ago when MkLinux started supporting the 7/8/9x00 PCI-based machines... Nobody ever came up with any sort of explanation, but moving the disk to a different SCSI ID helped most of the time.

More Newbie Questions....

2000-12-19 Thread Knapp, Robert \(CAP, CMC\)
Hi, I wrote a few days ago and asked a few questions, everyone was very helpful. And I appreciate it! I have a couple of new questions: 1) I tried to get xmms working, and it needed my audio device path. The default is /dev/dsp which fails (more /dev/dsp returns no

Re: [help] mesh - target 0 aborted

2000-12-19 Thread Momchil Velikov
Takehiko Abe wrote: Michel Lanners wrote: Try putting your Fireball on a different ID. This was FAQ a very long time ago when MkLinux started supporting the 7/8/9x00 PCI-based machines... Nobody ever came up with any sort of explanation, but moving the disk to a different SCSI ID

Re: PC hardware on PPC

2000-12-19 Thread Adrian Cox
Kevin van Haaren wrote: What about wake on lan features? does that require bios/open firmware integration (and does it even work under Mac OS?). I've not had a PPC machine with a wake on lan connector, and I'm not sure which of them do. - Adrian

Re: [help] mesh - target 0 aborted

2000-12-19 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
- out_le32(md-control, (RUN|PAUSE|FLUSH|WAKE) 16); /* stop dma */ What about waiting for the DBDMA channel to actually stop ? You should spin loop until the channel is actually stopped here. Note also that due to PCI write posting, doing an out_xxx, followed by a udelay, may not work

Re: [help] mesh - target 0 aborted

2000-12-19 Thread Takehiko Abe
Momchil Velikov wrote: You may try the following patch. It worked for me. [... patch snipped ...] Beautiful! Thank you! I threw in your patch onto mesh.c from 2.2.17 source (bad idea?) and compiled the whole kernel (i'll make it a module next time) and it seems to work fine: mesh: target 0

Install hangs on G4?

2000-12-19 Thread Jon Becker
Apologies is this has been covered before. I am trying to install Potato on a G4/400 from CD. The machine boots from the CD just fine, but the installer consistently hangs during network configuration. After I enter in name server addresses, it clears the screen and then sits there forever. If

Re: More Newbie Questions....

2000-12-19 Thread Michel Dänzer
Knapp, Robert (CAP, CMC) wrote: 1) I tried to get xmms working, and it needed my audio device path. The default is /dev/dsp which fails (more /dev/dsp returns no device available), the only other device I could see that made sense was /dev/audio which also returned a no device

Re: X keyboard

2000-12-19 Thread Olof
Thanks for all your answers. But one week ago I MUST use my drive where Linux whas installed... For the moment, I will keep my Mac with MacOS and my PC with Linux. I find too much problems with distributions of Linux on Mac. I prefer PC for Linux... Thanks for your answers Regards steven