XPF 3 Feature Requests |
February, 03, 2003 1:50 PM |
tippingj |
Greetings to all. Just thought I might throw this up. I would *LOVE* to see my old Powerbase have the ability to use USB Devices under Openfirmware. Meaning, my Apple Pro keyboard would actually be able to command the OF, using all the general bootup commands (command-S, command-option-P-R, etc, that sorta thing). Is this possible? Or, do the words "Stick with ADB" come to mind? Also.. I noticed that XPF 3.0 supports some L2/L3 Cache configs. Will XPF somehow enable the Cache at install and bootup? It would be nice to shave at least 30 secs off my bootup process if the L2 were enabled... |
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RE: XPF 3 Feature Requests |
February, 05, 2003 7:04 PM |
chibi_delenn |
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Ryan, I'm not sure if it's been mentioned yet, but if it is possible, could you implement a "Force Short Names" option in XPF 3? XPF 2.2.5 still runs into major problems a lot of the time with the Promise/UltraTek based Sonnet cards (I have a Tempo Trio), especially when attempting to install OS X from its Installer CD. I sure wish I could check out XPF 3 now, hehe. I would love at least a temporary workaround to booting OS X off the 200 GB HD I have. Sonnet's tech support says that the WD's 8 MB Cache seems to be the culprit, but they've not been able to fix it yet, so any way to work around it would be a big boost to us Drivezilla freaks. :) I'm beginning to see why WD put a large round sticker to "cover" the Mac OS icon on their box under the Supported Operating System specs. I can't wait for OWC Cache Config though...I've tried every possible way, but XPF *always* deletes the SonnetCache.kext when I use the Install option. It's fine in any other mode, but it never fails to overwrite (boohissssss) any extensions that are "extra" when it writes the directories for the helper drive. Oh, and I have a tip for those that might be getting stuck at the devfs on /dev line during bootup. It seems, that for me at least, when installing off my IDE based Pioneer DVD-106S, pressing the Command (Apple) key whenever the drive appears to stop working for a while helps it "kick in" again. Weird, but true. It will sometimes give a "MULTIMEDIA read or write failure" line when it kicks back in, but everything still goes smoothly from there on. I'm considering going back to 10.1.5 temporarily though, to see if DVD Player 3.2 is the culprit for the unplayable DVD in 10.2 when using a drive on the Tempo Trio card. Sorry for the long post, but hopefully it's useful to somebody. :) - Chibi Delennâ„¢ |
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RE: XPF 3 Feature Requests |
February, 05, 2003 4:52 PM |
kronos |
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I see the growing list of machines, devices and cards supported by the great xpf project, and I have to say that I'm surprised seeing the 604 support and every kind of G3/G4 upgrade support, even for 10.2 but I'm afraid I'm the last in line with a G3 chipset brand original Apple, still unsupported and I still run only macos9 on my powerbook g3. Unfortunately I cannot install macosx10.1server because of the ethernet limitation, the installer hangs whenit checks for network ports. I'm asking if are there news or future development on the unsupported powerbook G3. best regards kronos |
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RE: XPF 3 Feature Requests |
February, 04, 2003 2:42 PM |
OSXGuru |
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Getting USB to work in Open Firmware would be pretty tough. In theory, it would be possible to write Open Firmware drivers for USB cards and devices, and get BootX to load them from disk. But that would solve only part of your problem--it could work for command-s for instance, but it wouldn't help for command-option-p-r (becaue command-option-p-r needs to be working at an earlier stage of the boot process). And more to the point, it would be a ton of work. XPF 3.0 will in fact enable the L2 and L3 cache for install, and for bootup. |
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