On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, J.C. Roberts wrote:
Any chance you know the brand name of the upgraded processor?
It's a FastMac. 1.2 GHz G4. I _think_ the model # is APP-5582. FastMac
seems to have removed most of the information for this upgrade from their
website.
As for the missing serial
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:16:00 -0400 (EDT) Daniel Barowy
m...@barowy.net wrote:
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, J.C. Roberts wrote:
Any chance you know the brand name of the upgraded processor?
It's a FastMac. 1.2 GHz G4. I _think_ the model # is APP-5582.
FastMac seems to have removed most of
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:52:59 -0400 Daniel Barowy m...@barowy.net
wrote:
Paul M wrote:
I was bitten by a similar issue on i386 hardware - freezes during
install, or shortly thereafter.
After too many hours bashing on it, I reinstalled the original
windows disk, and it worked perfectly.
Hey,
There is an interesting guide related to some guys effort at turning
his old Mac into an OpenBSD router/firewall, he mentions the G4Port,
so it may be useful.
http://nuxx.net/wiki/Trashwall#G4Port
That entire page is an interesting read, but that's just me.. I like
stuff like that.
Paul M wrote:
I was bitten by a similar issue on i386 hardware - freezes during
install, or shortly thereafter.
After too many hours bashing on it, I reinstalled the original windows
disk, and it worked perfectly. I stress tested it for several days
without a single (aparent) problem, but
For less than $3 you can get old usb-r232 mobile phone data cables that
don't include a level shifter so they're compatible with TTL serial
ports directly. You just need to guess the pinouts.
It's somewhat dumb to first shift levels from TTL to real RS232 and then
have them shifted again in the
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:39:24 -0400 (EDT) Daniel Barowy
dbar...@barowy.net wrote:
Needless to say, getting an operating system to play nice with
firmware that is in an unknown patch state is a major pain in the
ass. The first thing you should try is getting the OpenBSD
4.5-current ISO
Daniel Barowy wrote:
Hello everyone,
A little searching on the lists and Google don't reveal anyone else
having this problem, so I thought I'd ask for help. I originally tried
installing 4.3 on this machine awhile back, and when I ran into this
problem, I had other things to do, so I
Hi Nick,
Thanks for looking at this...
Nick Holland wrote:
Keep in mind the Macs are basically closed, secretive hardware, supported
by a closed, secretive OS provided by the same vendor...so they can stick
workarounds in for odd hardware quirks that no one else knows about (and
they do have
On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:40:22 -0400 Daniel Barowy m...@barowy.net
wrote:
umass0 at uhub0 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0 Memorex
Flashdrive 303B rev 2.00/1.10 addr 2
umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only
scsibus1 at umass0: 2 targets, initiator 0
sd0 at scsibus1 targ 1 lun 0: Memorex,
J.C. Roberts wrote:
...
I've got no clue what kind of serial connector is used on your G4
Sawtooth, but if it uses MiniDIN-8F, you can easily find a converter to
DE-9. Run a null-modem cable between the G4 and your x86.
well..here's another feature of the newer MacPPC systems:
no serial port.
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:35:00 -0400 (EDT) Daniel Barowy
m...@barowy.net wrote:
I just reinstalled the MacOS on the machine (10.5), and that runs
OK. I haven't tried any other OSes, but I suppose I could.
Anyway, here's my dmesg. Anyone have any suggestions, or things I
could try to
Hi J.C.,
Thanks for the post...
if any, patches were stored in your NVRAM. The only way to get rid of
the patches is by doing a Parameter RAM (PRAM) reset via Opt-Cmd-P-R
on boot. Booting into MacOS is known to re-patch the firmware, but I'm
I did a PRAM reset, and indeed, the boot
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