[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Solaris on Intel Macs??

2006-04-18 Thread Jürgen Keil
Hmm, the Intel ICH7 chipset in the Intel iMac seems to suffer from the cntrl sharing DMA engine between channels problem, so that Solaris refuses to use DMA with the HDD: PCI Express-device: pci8086,[EMAIL PROTECTED], pci_pci0 pci_pci0 is /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/pci8086,[EMAIL

Re: Re[2]: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Solaris on Intel Macs??

2006-04-15 Thread Lloyd Staley Jr
Some interesting information on triple booting on an Intel Mac, disk structure, and limitations. http://wiki.onmac.net/index.php/Triple_Boot_via_BootCamp Lloyd ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re[2]: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Solaris on Intel Macs??

2006-04-14 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Jan, Friday, April 14, 2006, 2:31:00 AM, you wrote: Reading from the HDD is killing GUI performance on the iMac, it seems... There's an (supposedly dangerously) hacked ata driver floating around hat makes this work OK. Please contact me off-line if you'd like

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Solaris on Intel Macs??

2006-04-13 Thread Bob Palowoda
Reading from the HDD is killing GUI performance on the iMac, it seems... There's an (supposedly dangerously) hacked ata driver floating around hat makes this work OK. Please contact me off-line if you'd like a copy of it. The bug that covers this is: 5031379 Toshiba

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Solaris on Intel Macs??

2006-04-13 Thread Stephen Lau
Bob Palowoda wrote: Reading from the HDD is killing GUI performance on the iMac, it seems... There's an (supposedly dangerously) hacked ata driver floating around hat makes this work OK. Please contact me off-line if you'd like a copy of it. The bug that covers this is: 5031379 Toshiba

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Solaris on Intel Macs??

2006-04-13 Thread Jan Setje-Eilers
Reading from the HDD is killing GUI performance on the iMac, it seems... There's an (supposedly dangerously) hacked ata driver floating around hat makes this work OK. Please contact me off-line if you'd like a copy of it. The bug that covers this is: 5031379

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Solaris on Intel Macs??

2006-04-11 Thread Ian Collins
Jürgen Keil wrote: Hmm, well, I've not yet tried installing Solaris x86 on this Intel Mac, so I'm not 100% it will corrupt the HDD. Most likely the HDD will end up beeing corrupted, I'd say. Does the Solaris installer know how to install to EFI partitioned HDDs? I don't think so...