Subject: Re: 6500 will not boot when Sonnet G3/400 is active.
From: Brian Watson (bcwatso1@uiuc.edu)
Date: Sun Oct 07 2001 - 22:19:59 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.
I could never get my G3 Upgrade card working with my 6500. I admit,
I didn't try very hard, and I needed the money, so I sold it. The
512K L2 cahce works fine for me. ;)
--Brian
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