> On 30 Nov, this message from Marco van de Voort echoed through
> cyberspace:
> > I got an old (_really_ old) PCI ide card, and tried to insert it into
> > my 7300, in the hope I can attach some (larger) IDE drives.
> >
> > However the 7300 running debian 3.0 with
> >
> > Linux rottenapple 2.2.20-pmac #1 Thu Mar 21 17:08:23 EST 2002 ppc
> > unknown
>
> First thing: upgrade to a 2.4 kernel; that really boosts performance on
> PPC hardware. For your machine, a standard 2.4 kernel (kernel.org, for
> instance) will do.
I will do this then. I originally didn't upgrade out of memory
considerations, but meanwhile the mem was upgraded from 32M to 96M, so I
guess it would be no problem.
I should be capable of compiling and installing a kernel, but am a bit
worried about the bootmgr. I'll do some rtfm'ing first.
> > doesn't seem to recognize the card. That is not so strange, could be
> > driver, unsupported card etc etc.
> >
> > However I don't see it in /proc/pci either.
>
> That's bad. Even without IRQ jumpering, it should be in /proc/pci. Sure
> it isn't there? Can you send the output of 'lspci -vv'?
00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. Bandit PowerPC host bridge (rev 03)
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 32, cache line size 08
00:10.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. Grand Central I/O (rev 02)
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR+
Latency: 32, cache line size 08
Region 0: Memory at f3000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
> Also, send along
> the output of 'ls -l /proc/device-tree/bandit/'.
total 0
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4 Dec 3 16:46 #address-cells
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4 Dec 3 16:46 #size-cells
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 3 16:46 @10 -> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 3 16:46 @B -> pci106b,[EMAIL
PROTECTED]
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4 Dec 3 16:46 AAPL,interrupts
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 8 Dec 3 16:46 bus-range
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4 Dec 3 16:46 clock-frequency
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4 Dec 3 16:46 device_type
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 3 16:46 gc -> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dr-xr-xr-x 10 root root 0 Dec 3 16:46 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 14 Dec 3 16:46 model
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 7 Dec 3 16:46 name
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 3 16:46 pci106b,1 ->
pci106b,[EMAIL PROTECTED]
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Dec 3 16:46 pci106b,[EMAIL
PROTECTED]
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 72 Dec 3 16:46 ranges
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 8 Dec 3 16:46 reg
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 13 Dec 3 16:46 slot-names
> > Also, this card still must be manually jumpered to the appropiate PCI
> > INTs. (INT A..D)
>
> Doesn't make any difference on Macs; all the IRQ pins (4 per slot,
> A...D) ar wired together on each slot.
Ok. That is one problem less to worry about then.
