From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 1 03:10:39 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAFA216A41C; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 03:10:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from smtp2.server.rpi.edu (smtp2.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46E3B43D1D; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 03:10:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp2.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j613AbWe029233; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 23:10:38 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20050630221635.GA29010@cvs.freesbie.org> References: <20050630221635.GA29010@cvs.freesbie.org> Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 23:10:34 -0400 To: Dario Freni , Peter Grehan From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-RPI-SA-Score: undef - spam-scanning disabled X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) on 128.113.2.2 Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-ppc on an external hdd (Mac Mini) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 03:10:39 -0000 At 12:16 AM +0200 7/1/05, Dario Freni wrote: > >Little update to the article. USB, sadly, works better than >FireWire. When booting from FireWire i'm not able to make a >buildworld. It exits really at *random* points with quite *random* >error codes (96, 120, 223...). Absolutely no problem switching >to USB (same box, it's a combo usb/fw external case). Interesting. I've done buildworld/buildkernel with /usr/obj on an external firewire drive, and it worked fine. I did it hoping to see a performance boost by having /usr/obj on the faster external firewire drive, while /usr/src was still on the slow internal drive of the Mac-mini. There was no significant speed difference, but everything seemed to work perfectly fine. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu