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- Subject: Re: IIfx hangs while installing A/UX 3.0
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.130721.20701@newsgate.sps.mot.com>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 13:07:21 GMT
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- yaosenko@acsu.buffalo.edu (Yaosen Ko) writes:
- : Just got A/UX 3.0 upgrade kit and about to install it in no time!
- :
- : Perhaps I just find out a vulnerable point of installing A/UX 3.0
- : on IIfx.
- :
- : There are three steps in installing A/UX 3.0: setting up disk with
- : HD Setup, installing A/UX Startup on MacOS partition, and
- : installing A/UX proper on the Root & Usr partition.
- :
- : The first two steps went smoothly. When it came to the last step, and
- : while the installing program showed "Please wait... Calculating UNIX
- : filesystem space requirement", the machine hang. It is highly
- : reproducible. Adjusting the arrangement of SCSI devices helps a bit
- : but it still happens in about 10% of the time.
- :
- : Does anybody care to comment on this? Yet another SCSI DMA "feature"
- : of IIfx? Anybody from Apple would like to say anything so we can
- : have an insight? (hint... hint...)
-
- I have not yet received my final 3.0 CD but when I installed the early beta
- version on my IIfx it went very well. BTW, my SCSI bus is very heavily
- loaded... the internal HD, three external HD, my CD-ROM drive and an Apple
- 40MB tape drive. Yes, I know I must be the only one with the Apple Tape, but
- it does work and my boss can't see any reason for me to have a QIC drive.
-
- I would check out all SCSI devices and the termination since the fx really
- is picky about noise on the SCSI bus.
-
- Good Luck,
-
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- Greg Berryman gpb@gpb-mac.sps.mot.com
- Motorola Inc. Austin Texas
-