On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, Brian Morris wrote:
> hi, > > i think an alternative to ntpdate: > > date -s "`rsh $buildhost date`" > > where buildhost is your nfs/ distcc server, or whatever. then you can > sync clocks on your local net, at least. If you have ntpd running on $buildhost, you could also do ntpdate -b $buildhost > _______ > > also, i looked at those status pages. one note: i have experience > the machine will not shutdown or halt, but hangs. > this is more annoying on the quadra630 which has no off switch, the only > way to stop it is to reboot into macos. but my performa475/quadra605 can > be switch off (i have not tested etch there yet). There was an old version of one of my IRQ patches that would hang the NuBus when a slot driver (e.g. SONIC) was closed. Since the IDE interrupt is also on a NuBus slot, this would lock up the shutdown process. It won't affect SCSI machines in the same way. My 630 had the problem too. I fixed the problem, but I don't know which patches are in the debian kernel. You could try this 2.6.20 kernel instead, http://www.telegraphics.com.au/~fthain/riccardo/ > i do not experience the clock problem forcing fsck. this only happen if > people have ext3 on their root partition ? anyway i have a single debian > partition of ext2 and i don't get fsck every time. i only use ext3 when > i have a separate partion for more room such as home or source. the > story on ppc list was debian reccomends against ext3 root (or anything > other than ext2). > > ________ > > one question: > > so if sonic driver is ok now, would that be a better / faster one than > the Asante or Farollon chips. have one asante card now, between two > machines. could buy a sonic. costs a little bit more. Either one should work fine, but I would expect the SONIC driver to be marginally faster since it uses a zero-copy algorithm. > > _________ > > one more comment on RAM > > i think 32MB is that OK ? i found that sarge could boot with 20 but it > was not happy. to run emacs (xemacs = better) say. > > i think i need at least 64 for etch, bare minimum. Did you try it with 32 MB? I haven't installed etch yet... -f > > brian > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
