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Date:      Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:37:38 -0600
From:      Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>
To:        Roger Mason <rmason@mun.ca>
Cc:        FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Fwd: Installing on G5
Message-ID:  <4F3001D2.9050004@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <72B4C131-1F4F-4F67-B4B8-983529A0E6C2@mun.ca>
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On 01/31/12 11:29, Roger Mason wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> *From: *Roger Mason <rmason@mun.ca <mailto:rmason@mun.ca>>
>> *Date: *January 30, 2012 1:59:12 PM NST
>> *To: *Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org 
>> <mailto:nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>>
>> *Subject: **Re: Installing on G5*
>>
>> hello Nathan,
>>
>> On 28-Jan-12, at 9:19 AM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Jan 28, 2012, at 5:18 AM, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:26:58 -0330
>>>> Roger Mason <rmason@mun.ca <mailto:rmason@mun.ca>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Then the fan accelerates until I turn off the machine.
>>>>
>>>> FYI, this is normal on some models of the G5's. They need to have a 
>>>> "fan control" program running,
>>>> if not the firmware takes over and set the fans at full blast.
>>>> Search the archives of this mailing list for more info.
>>>>
>>>
>>> That's only partially true these days -- the fan control program is 
>>> now integrated into the kernel. But it does still mean the fans will 
>>> pick up in the event ofa kernel panic. Can you paste in the few 
>>> lines of output before that as well as tell us what model of G5 you 
>>> have (PowerMacX,Y)?
>>> -Nathan
>>
>> Copied by hand from the console:
>>
>> ......
>> uhub 5 3 ports with 2removable, self powered
>> cd0 at ata0 bus0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0
>> cd0: <OPTIARC DVD RW AD-7170A 1.NC> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device
>> cd0: 66.700MB/s transfers (UDMA, ATAPI 12 bytes, PIO 65534bytes)
>> cd0: cd present [284629 x 2048 byte records]
>> (cd0:ata0:0:0:0) READ(10), CDB: 28 0 0 4 57 d4 0 0 1 0
>> (cd0:ata0:0:0:0) CAM status: SCSI Status error
>> (cd0:ata0:0:0:0) SCSI status: check condition
>> (cd0:ata0:0:0:0) SCSI sense: ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:64,0 (Illegal mode 
>> for this track)
>> (cd0:ata0:0:0:0) Info: 0x457d4
>> (cd0:ata0:0:0:0) cddone: got error 0x6 back
>>
>> Block starting at READ(10) repeats 3 times then:
>>
>>
>> iichb0:I2C error
>>
>> last line repeats every few seconds
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Roger
>
> Forgot to cc: the list.  Also, here is the machine info:
>
> Machine Name:Power Mac G5
>   Machine Model:PowerMac7,3
>   CPU Type:PowerPC G5  (3.0)
>   Number Of CPUs:2
>   CPU Speed:2 GHz
>   L2 Cache (per CPU):512 KB
>   Memory:1 GB
>   Bus Speed:1 GHz
>   Boot ROM Version:5.2.4f1
>
> Cheers,
> Roger
>
>
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If you plug and unplug your USB keyboard, does anything show on the 
console? (I'm trying to determine if interrupts are working correctly)
-Nathan



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