[openbeosstorage] Shit Happens...
- From: Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeosstorage@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 13:22:38 +0100 (MET)
Hi guys,
yesterday my laptop stopped cooperating with me, or more precisely it
doesn't come as far as to the BIOS info screen anymore. Memory and
removable devices (CD rom, PC cards, HD, battery) don't seem to be the
cause of the problem, so I've little hope, that it can be revived. While
this is annoying in itself, it is even more so, since this computer was my
main development machine.
I mentioned in an earlier mail, that I have another box (a dual PIII-500)
which is unstable. In fact it's much worse than just unstable. Some days
ago I tried to transfer an ISO image via network to it, which always ended
up with a wrong MD5 sum. Finally I split it into some 100 1MB pieces and
transferred those. For about 20% of the files a wrong check sum was
reported. Interestingly, when the check was run a second time, the bad
files weren't the same ones. This happened with different HDs, so I
suspect some controller (PCI or IDE) is broken. I wonder, if one can still
get those mainboards with BX chip set.
I'm writing this mail on my last box, a sturdy, old PPC machine. I don't
think, I will do any OBOS development on it, since 1) the build system
does work with gcc only -- that could perhaps be fixed (at least for
the currently interesting stuff), though I couldn't even check whether I
break the gcc build with it -- 2) the machine is simply too slow for our
build system (I suspect the mere startup of Jam (reading Jamfiles + header
scanning) would take a minute or longer), and 3) I somehow suspect the
disk_scanner module code not to be endianess aware (at least the
partition module isn't).
To cut a long story short, I will either need to get my desktop machine
running again or get a new laptop before I will be able to continue to
contribute. Unfortunately my financial situation isn't so great, that I
wouldn't need to think about it.
BTW, any hints regarding compatible laptop hardware? AFAIK the Radeon
mobility is well supported, but e.g. soundwise I've no idea.
CU, Ingo
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