Re: [PATCH] Add SWIM floppy support for m68k Macs.

[Brad Boyer <flar@allandria.com>]

On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 01:58:48AM +0100, Riccardo wrote:
> Under Mac 7.1 it gets definitively recognized as Mac II. I definitively 
> have a SWIM, since one of my two floppies reads HD disks, I checked
> 
> Penguin says my  gestalt is 6, Mac II
> 
> A clue for the MacII is the 68020 CPU + FPU + MMU, AFAIK the only apple 
> machine with these specs.

That definitely answers my question. Thank you.

> PS: I didn't use this mac since many months, it first stasrted up, but 
> then refusedfurther boots with the sad mac sound and no video output. 
> REmoving components trying to isolate the problem didn't help. When I 
> put al back together with no luck, a last attempt made it boot. Any 
> ideas? I see no visible damage on the motherboard, the batteries still 
> have some juice left...

It's hard to say what might be the problem. The symptoms of a bad
battery are quite a bit different. This almost sounds more like a
bad video card to me. Do you have a different one you can try? A
lot of older macs refuse to boot without video.

	Brad Boyer
	flar@allandria.com