Fwd: Installing on G5
Roger Mason
rmason at mun.ca
Tue Jan 31 18:09:31 UTC 2012
Hello,
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Roger Mason <rmason at mun.ca>
> Date: January 30, 2012 1:59:12 PM NST
> To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at 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 at 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 of a 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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