Re: Version(s) working with BlizzardPPC

[Kulwant B. <kul...@bt...>]

Hello Andi, 

>> kernel access of bad area pc c00dca04 lr c00de9f8 address 70 tsk
>> hwclock/230 task = c65dc000[230] 'hwclock'
>                        ^^^^^^^^^

> So you really seem to have a major problem with the hw clock!

> Is the contact between the ppc board and the motherboard ok? Where does
> the clock actually reside (motherboard or ppc)? Is it some strange
> non-standard chip?

I believe the contact between the PPC board and motherboard is good,
otherwise I would expect instability on the Amiga side too. But the Amiga
side is as stable as rock. I can have the machine running all day with
IBrowse, SimpleMail, Amplifier (running WOS ppc mp3 decoding), MiamiDX,
Samba (for occasional networking to PCs), Jabberwocky, Editpad, Classaction,
Warp jpg Datatypes etc. in constant use with no lock-ups, crashes, freezes etc.     

I can even play Quake WOS and GL_Quake, Shogo, WipeOut and Freespace so if
there was a PPC problem, I would expect it to manifest itself here. Although Freespace
can occasionally lock-up, Shogo and Quake don't and neither does WipeOut, so I on that
front I suspect the software rather than the hardware. 

The clock resides on the PPC board. The board AFAIK is a standard Phase5
BlizzardPPC (second hand - but I've had it since the year 2000 and not had
any problems with it). The battery had nearly started to leak so I
unsoldered it and soldered in a CMOS battery holder and replaced the
battery. The clock still functions (i.e. saves and holds time) from the
AmigaOS side, so if I had blown anything I would expect it not to work from
the AmigaOS side either. I can open the Tower up and report the Revision 
number of the board (If I can find it) if it will help. 

> Can you add -d debug to your bootstrap line, and after the kernel oops
> reboot run dmesg > ram:output in the shell (amigaOS side)? Post the
> output here. I hope some of the kernel gurus can do something about it.

Off to try it now. 

> Well, the goal would be to run, not just crash every other minute..

But of course :-). 

Thanks for all your help so far. 

Kind Regards, 

Kulwant