ata 66 and blue and white g3

[Paul Nasrat]

On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 22:41 -0800, james rooker wrote:
> I have already posted this on some yellowdog mailling
> lists.
> My issue is just as applicable to fedora ppc so trying
> here as well.
> 
> I have a blue and white 400Mhz G3 with 1 20gb Western
> Digital HD and 1
> Maxtor 300gb HD. I am running the 20gb drive as the
> boot drive with MacOSX Tiger. Without any patches the
> 300gb drive is seen as a 137gb drive -- With Intech's
> ATA HD patch -- I can set multiple 137gb partitions
> and use almost the entire 300gb. 

What sort of patches are you talking about - Open Firmware/FCode patches
or OS X kernel patches?

Also are you running the most recent firmware patches from Apple for the
B&W?

> I would like to set
> this machine up dual boot -- MacOSX and Fedora ppc
> linux. However with both Fedora Core 4 and Fedora Core
> 5 ppc installers -- I can boot the machine just fine
> and run the installer to the partitioning stage -- but
> it never actually writes any linux packages to the HD
> at all the installer locks up when I try to write
> partitions to either drive ...

Can you give more details on the lock - is it just a lock or is it a
traceback/error message. Can you switch ttys to tty3 and tty4? If so are
there any messages there?

Paul