From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brad Boyer Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add SWIM floppy support for m68k Macs. Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 18:28:50 -0800 Message-ID: <20081105022850.GA3243@cynthia.pants.nu> References: <20081104200600.GA32663@cynthia.pants.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from [76.245.85.235] ([76.245.85.235]:56002 "EHLO cynthia.pants.nu" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753601AbYKEC3h (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Nov 2008 21:29:37 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-m68k-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org To: Riccardo Cc: Laurent Vivier , geert@linux-m68k.org, linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org 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