Re: crest & kullervo

2011-05-01 Thread Finn Thain
On Sun, 1 May 2011, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > BTW I found a file called "pula" in the tmp directory, its an i386 > executable, I also found it in /var/spool/exim... does anybody know what > it is? Try passing it through strings(1). Finn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-68k-requ...@l

Re: crest & kullervo

2011-05-01 Thread Michael Schmitz
Hi Christian, > > > I had feared that - old SCSI disks don't like extended downtimes. > > > > Not only SCSI disks, the same applies to IDE. > > I guess, so it would be good to replace the old (boot) disks. I would > replace an IDE disk with an SD or CF to IDE adapter and a 1GB or 4GB card, > whi

Re: crest & kullervo

2011-05-01 Thread Stephen Walsh
On Sunday, May 01, 2011 10:33:34 pm Christian T. Steigies wrote: > disk as well, especially as it does not seem to be needed. BTW does > anybody have a spare A2k powersupply (with 220V please) or an idea how to > modify a "modern" powersupply to replace the one in an A2k? I once read > some inst

Re: crest & kullervo

2011-05-01 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 14:33, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 10:16:45AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >> And replace the NiCd clock battery when it started to leak by a modern NiMh >> variant. > > I should do that with my A2k. Do you know which part I need? Not from hea

Re: crest & kullervo

2011-05-01 Thread Jakob Eriksson
On 5/1/11 2:33 PM, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > "modern" powersupply to replace the one in an A2k? I once read some > instructions how to convert an AT powersupply, but they are not state of the > art anymore. What does it need, 12V, 5V, and the tick signal? Is that so http://www.ianstedman.

Re: crest & kullervo

2011-05-01 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 10:16:45AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 05:23, schmitz > wrote: > >> I picked up crest & kullervo a while ago. Today I tried to power them on, > >> with not so much luck... > >> > >> Kullervo has a 250GB disk at the SCSI converter plus a 1GB SCS

Re: crest & kullervo

2011-05-01 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 05:23, schmitz wrote: >> I picked up crest & kullervo a while ago. Today I tried to power them on, >> with not so much luck... >> >> Kullervo has a 250GB disk at the SCSI converter plus a 1GB SCSI disk. The >> small disk does not seem to spin up, it is trying though. Without