On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Ben Reser wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 11:50:14PM -0000, AllanL wrote: > > I think that there is a serious mindset issue here in the quote I pulled out > > of the following. > > > > > Instaling linux od mac is hard so don't give up and don't worry. > > > > It should not be hard, that is why I think there are things like diskdrake > > being developed. On this issue > > diskdrake has nothing to do with this guys issue. And diskdrake won't > necessarily make linux on macs easy. The issue is and always will be > that the information we have on the hardware is mostly by reverse > engineering it. Sometimes stuff isn't going to work. If you don't like > it. Please complaign to Apple about their policies of keeping a lot of > things secret or go spend time reverse engineering it. > > > I will also mention that Mandrake does not seem to have scsi support in the > > kernel (at least in 8) and > > I think there were comments about this. Why make things difficult. > > Personally I could never get 8 to > > find my scsi cd rom or disk. > > This is a policy decision that goes beyond even the PPC version. I > don't specifically know the rational for making it. But I would imagine > the best place to ask this question is on the cooker list not the > cooker-ppc list. > There is and was modular SCSI support. I overlooked aic7xxx and have apologized for that error as well as created new ISO's for those folks needing that driver. I have SCSI on both of my machines and use it regularly. Nearly every module that will compile on PPC is included, many of which will probably never get used. It may be true that SCSI did not wokr on your particular machine. I've read of various "tricks" that have to be performed on some Macs to get it to work, not only in Mandrake, due to the way it is implemented on some machines. (removing certain devices/cards, etc. etc.) Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft OH/TN, USA http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/
