From fnaumann@mail.cs.uni-magdeburg.de Sat Nov 22 07:23:05 2003 Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 01:17:03 -0500 (EST) From: Jim DeClercq To: Deborah Frazer , mint_list Subject: [MiNT] Possible progress, Seagate ST32550w Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Delivered-To: mint@fishpool.com Delivered-To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: jimd@panix.com Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-ID: X-List-ID: Assuming that board-edge input devices are usually logic low true, and that excess capacitance delays the input from reaching logic high false in between true states, what can be done is to install termination, to help the inputs go false, and in the case of a hard drive, to connect its termpower to other sources of termpower, for the lowest impedance source of pullup power. That is what I did, and it seems that MiNT is going to work, finally, and stay working long enough to do something with it. At least it loaded EasyMiNT OK, and did a tape backup, and rebooted several times without fsck complaining about bad blocks.. The only problem so far is that NVDI complains about a lack of memory, and refuses to run. Now, will someone please tell me where this group is archived? I did get pppd to dial once, but it was a matter of order and switches, and I did not keep a copy of what I did, but did post what I did, and would like to find it again. Jim -- /"\ Jim DeClercq--jimd@panix.com--Sylvania, Ohio, USA \ / ASCII ribbon campaign | I'm a .signature virus! | X against HTML mail | Copy me into your ~/.signature| / \ and postings | to help me spread! | .