Disk errors on PowerBook 180
Nat Sloss <[email protected]> Sun, 10 May 2026 02:03:37 +1000
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.ports.mac68k |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hi, The problem is that the standard SBC kernels for mac68k will use PDMA for reading/writing to hdd and Powerbooks need either SBC_INTR flag 0x2 added to sbc* in there kernel config or to use the slower polled mode. Many improvents were made in NetBSD-11 for Powerbook 1xx machines. (Audio recording/playback/ Battery montoring via envsys/ Screen brightness control support and DaynaPORT network suppot which works great with the bluescsi v2 and similar or PiSCSI/rascsi). There were also changes to sbc in particular setting the right and faster default for scsi transfers on the PB 1xx and better handing of aborting transfers which is need for the dse(4) daynaPORT driver as it only works with polled scsi transfers. Not sure if all of these changes made it into -11 but are definately in - current if you use a kernel from one of the daily builds it will work great. Also if you have 10mb or more ram it is possible to run a smaller X11 server (x11/tinyx-wscons) which will start a full Xsession on the Powerbook (mine is a PB160 25Mhz 14mb system) in 5minutes or so provided you reduce the number of fonts in /usr/X11/lib/fonts - I moved /usr/X11/lib/fonts/75dpi out of the fonts directory and rerun fc cache). Please try a current kernel and report back. I will attempt to fix any issues. Best regards, Nat