On Jul 25 2002, Trench Shoring wrote:
> Install takes about a week to format the entire 10G drive. I must be
> missing a basic howto. Is there a www site or tips on installing to
> this not so ancient Mac?
First of all, I would like to point out that I don't know
enough about macs
The standard internal SCSI bus on OldWord PowerMacs is quite slow
for today standards, with 10 Mb/s of nominal bandwitdh.
To make it worse factory installed hard disks where specially slow.
Tipical sustained transfer read ates under MacOS are in the 3-5 Mb/s
range. With multi-tasking OSes this may
On 26 Jul, this message from rsaran echoed through cyberspace:
> The standard internal SCSI bus on OldWord PowerMacs is quite slow
> for today standards, with 10 Mb/s of nominal bandwitdh.
^^
Make that MB/s (Megabytes, not Megabits)
Few machines had that 10 MB/s int
On Fri, 26 Jul 2002 22:31:25 +0200 (CEST)
Michel Lanners <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The 9500 has an additional problem, because its 512 Kb L2 cache is
> > soldered in the mainboard and can't be replaced, but usually it is a
> > good quality component.
>
> Sure about that? All the other first-
Michael, thank you for the corrections. I have some comments may also be
useful for those considering an old PowerMac as a Debian platform.
Now I am building a Debian high performance server using an 8500 as the
base system, and I hope the experience help people trying to use Debian
on the Pow
On 29 Jul, this messageom Rogerio Saran echoed through cyberspace:
> Michael, thank you for the corrections.
You're welcome :-)
> I have some comments may also be
> useful for those considering an old PowerMac as a Debian platform.
I hope some are inspired by your comments. I run Woody myself
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