From owner-freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Thu Nov 15 16:18:53 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57DF511024E4 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2018 16:18:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dclarke@blastwave.org) Received: from atl4mhfb02.myregisteredsite.com (atl4mhfb02.myregisteredsite.com [209.17.115.118]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 87C0F7339E for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2018 16:18:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dclarke@blastwave.org) Received: from atl4mhob05.registeredsite.com (atl4mhob05.registeredsite.com [209.17.115.43]) by atl4mhfb02.myregisteredsite.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id wAFGIpCo014041 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2018 11:18:51 -0500 Received: from mailpod.hostingplatform.com (atl4qobmail02pod2.registeredsite.com [10.30.77.36]) by atl4mhob05.registeredsite.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id wAFGIiFK026793 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2018 11:18:44 -0500 Received: (qmail 33392 invoked by uid 0); 15 Nov 2018 16:18:44 -0000 X-TCPREMOTEIP: 174.118.245.214 X-Authenticated-UID: dclarke@blastwave.org Received: from unknown (HELO ?172.16.35.3?) (dclarke@blastwave.org@174.118.245.214) by 0 with ESMTPA; 15 Nov 2018 16:18:44 -0000 To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org From: Dennis Clarke Subject: The PowerMac G5 internal hard disk SATA question Message-ID: <157b8bec-f5f6-08ba-cc2e-a58dc42894c5@blastwave.org> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2018 11:18:43 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 87C0F7339E X-Spamd-Result: default: False [1.05 / 200.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_FIVE(0.00)[5]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.58)[-0.585,0]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; NEURAL_SPAM_MEDIUM(0.25)[0.250,0]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[blastwave.org]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(0.52)[0.517,0]; MX_GOOD(-0.01)[cached: mx1.netsolmail.net]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[118.115.17.209.list.dnswl.org : 127.0.5.0]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:19871, ipnet:209.17.112.0/21, country:US]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; IP_SCORE(-0.02)[country: US(-0.10)] X-Rspamd-Server: mx1.freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2018 16:18:53 -0000 Someone (offlist) asked if my shiney new Seagate hard disk was compatible with SATA-I and I wouldn't know. I have had various types of hard disks in this thing and also some SSD types. Nothing is very fast and all of them worked. Not sure if anyone else has tried to attach a new Samsung EVO SSD onto an old PowerMac G5 but I would be interested to hear the results. In the mean while I will figure out how to fully backup the contents of my old Apple branded Hitachi Deskstar HDS725050KLA360 500GB disk which has a very stable Debian sid PPC64 image on it. I figure dd will do the trick. If there is a way to install FreeBSD from a USB stick onto a PowerMac G5 well I'd love to hear from someone about the OpenFirmware magic needed. Thus far using a PC keyboard and a Vulkan nerve pinch CTRL+O+F does not get me to the openfirmware prompt. It has been a while since I tried and it may need a six fingered vulkan hand to do CTRL+SHIFT+O+F to work. Then boot ud:,\\:tbxi ??? Dennis