Subject: Re: 6500 will not boot when Sonnet G3/400 is active.
From: Robert Brandtjen (rob@prometheusmedia.com)
Date: Sun Oct 07 2001 - 20:04:43 MDT
on 10/7/01 8:17 PM, Carl Kehley at sparky@hazleton.net wrote:
> Any ideas on this one? I installed YDL 2.0 on a 6500/225 upgraded to a
> 400 G3, 1MB backside cache, 128Mb ram. Mac OS 9.1 resides on a 4gig
> Seagate SCSI drive, YDL is installed on a 3Mb IDE drive (original for
> the machine). If I boot into Linux (BootX, latest from the YDL site)
> using the 225mhz processor, everything is fine (at least as fine as a
> 603e with no L2 cache could be). If I change the file type on the
> Sonnet extension, as per several messages on the list a while ago, and
> use the G3, the system will not boot. I get a hda:interrupt lost
> repeater. I'm using the stock kernel for 2.0, 2.2.19-1 I believe. I
> saw some messages concerning this problem doing a search of the
> archives. Would it be worth trying to go to a 2.4 kernel, or would I
> just be wasting my time? Any help, please? I'm falling asleep watching
> KDE load.
Maybe the L2 cache is going bad ?
Robert Brandtjen
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