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From:Kevin Fairhurst
Date:4 May 2000 at 14:30:25
Subject:Re: Nope, it didn't work ;-< (PPC)

On Thu, 4 May 2000 09:51:23 +0100 , Michael Carter (michael.carter@aspentech.com) wrote:

> Yup this is what we did, and unlike yours Nick, hhaha, after a long wait it
> WORKED, yes perfect the PPC card was brought back to life. Magic, super,
> duper!! :o) Soz to do this to you Nick, looks like yours was a duffer!

I think his might be, but I haven't given up on him yet ;-)

> One thing that MAY have made a differnece (don't know why) was disabling all
> HDD devices and booting from floppy, even though they were all IDE devices
> and nothing to do with the blizzppc.device ?!

You should do that! It says so in the docs! The only devices you should
leave available are CC0 and DF0!!

> My house mate is now a very happy bunny and got straight back to his coding
> after a 2 month break...

Hurrah! i'm glad I was able to help fix at least one PPC card ...

Kev



Kevin "Redvers" Fairhurst - ICQ 56332267, redver5 on AIM

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