@foone
That reminds me of my experience with installing a hard disk from an old AS/400 into an m68k Mac.
Fun fact: Mac OS classic does not support drives that need to be spun up.
Linux does. But booting Linux on an m68k Mac requires that you boot Mac OS first, then run the 'penguin' program, which loads the Linux kernel and boots that (not very secure, this Mac OS thing).
That reminds me of my experience with installing a hard disk from an old AS/400 into an m68k Mac.
Fun fact: Mac OS classic does not support drives that need to be spun up.
Linux does. But booting Linux on an m68k Mac requires that you boot Mac OS first, then run the 'penguin' program, which loads the Linux kernel and boots that (not very secure, this Mac OS thing).
@foone
It turned out that these specific AS/400 drives needed to be spun up before they could be used, they don't do that on power up.
So here I go, trying to upgrade a Mac Quadra 950 with a 2G(!😱) hard drive, but nothing happens. I'm thinking maybe I did something wrong? But after searching for hours, replacing the cable, and fiddling with various things it just never shows up in Mac OS. And in order to use it under Linux, you need to partition it under Mac OS.
It turned out that these specific AS/400 drives needed to be spun up before they could be used, they don't do that on power up.
So here I go, trying to upgrade a Mac Quadra 950 with a 2G(!😱) hard drive, but nothing happens. I'm thinking maybe I did something wrong? But after searching for hours, replacing the cable, and fiddling with various things it just never shows up in Mac OS. And in order to use it under Linux, you need to partition it under Mac OS.
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@foone
Eventually I decide it's not going to work, give up and load Linux again (the machine was an official Debian build host for the m68k port).
Mid boot it just started making this... noise. As if there's an air plane lifting off. I panic, check the console... and discover that Linux found the disk and sent it the spin up command.
Reboot, open the partitioning tool, everything works. 🤦
Eventually I decide it's not going to work, give up and load Linux again (the machine was an official Debian build host for the m68k port).
Mid boot it just started making this... noise. As if there's an air plane lifting off. I panic, check the console... and discover that Linux found the disk and sent it the spin up command.
Reboot, open the partitioning tool, everything works. 🤦
@foone
Ok, ok, I lie. These days there's 'emile', which is able to boot Linux without Mac OS on some m68k models. But not then. And I don't think Emile ever supported the Q950.
Ok, ok, I lie. These days there's 'emile', which is able to boot Linux without Mac OS on some m68k models. But not then. And I don't think Emile ever supported the Q950.