few days ago tried installing woody onto an 8500. found out that there was some bad ram, so i tried the same HD in a different 8500 with NEW RAM (256MB).
install went just fine, however, the kernel would report SCSI disk errors at random intervals (often when booting).... i was able to get the base system installed, however the machine crashed a few times while trying to extract the kernel src from a tar archive. (reporting numerous SCSI errors on the main consol).... i have tested this drive like crazy... and it *seems* fine.... linux seems to install without any problems onto Apple firmware HDs...however all of the ones that i have are only 2GB... and i would like to take advantage of this fast 4gb Seagate.... after doing some research i dug up this (http://www.alphalinux.org/archives/axp-list/March2001/0268.shtml) that said something about a potential bug in the drive's firmware... has anyone had any experience with this drive not behaving? (also, i have tried messing with the jumpers on the drive itself - pertaining to termination.) thanks, dylan
