I'll wait to hear from others on this.  If no one has tried it,
I will take one for the team.  I have a friend that runs one
SE/30 with 1.4.x on it, and a batch of Quadras, and he says 1.5
reportedly messed with the performance of Quadras, specifically 
SCSI, I believe, and hasn't upgraded yet.

My SE/30 got a lot of attention at DefCon last year.  Many
people didn't believe it was all genuine Mac SE/30 parts inside,
because "UNIX Doesn't run on stuff like that."  With a smirk I
was able to confidently say "Haven't your heard the phrase 'Of
Course it runs NetBSD!'"

Granted, I've hacked it up a bit.  It's got 32 Megs of ram, and
I added an extra power cable inside and mounted 2 SCSI Hard
Drives in there, 270 Meg and a 1 Gig (The 1G drive will be replaced
by a 4 Gig Barracuda once I sell off my RS/6000 Model 250.  It's
currently in the RS6K, but I'm not giving up the hard drive when
I sell it)

Painting the case is a blast but it takes a lot of patience and
a careful hand, especially when using cheap spray paint like I
did.  I'll try to get better photos of it up close.  The dangerous
part about painting a baby-mac is taking it apart because the CRT
is out in the open once you get the case off, and you have to take
the whole thing apart to do a good job painting.

This is my first real discussion here.  I usually find what I need
in the archives.  I know i've been a tad bit verbose for my first
day on the list.  I'll settle down soon enough.  

Thanks!
Noah Dunker
Systems Analyst/Technician
Johnson County Community College 


-----Original Message-----
From: Pat Wendorf [mailto:beholder@unios.dhs.org]
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 10:54 PM
To: Noah Dunker
Cc: 'port-mac68k@netbsd.org'
Subject: Re: 1.5 on a Mac SE/30


I really can't help with the question (I run Quadra's and they seem to
run 1.5 fine), but I will say kudos on the paint job, it looks awesome!

I painted quite a few of my PC cases, but never the monitor or keyboard
(lack of required patience).  I think you've just inspired me to create
"Green Apple" and "Red Apple" out of my quadra's :)

Noah Dunker wrote:
> 
> I noticed that the Macintosh SE/30 isn't listed in the
> ports of machines that work. I have NetBSD 1.4.2 loaded
> on it, and it works great except for the floppy drive.
> 
> I was wondering if anyone knew about NetBSD 1.5 working
> on this machine.  I'd love to upgrade it.  I've had
> NetBSD loaded on it since 1.4.2 was released for it,
> and I love it so far, but this is truly my first
> Mac/UNIX experience aside from MkLinux on a PPC 6100.
> 
> Any takers?
> 
> She's a beauty.  I call it the "Blackintosh".  I did an
> awesome job carefully removing the shell and giving it
> a good sanding, some primer, several black coats, and
> some  clearcoat for good measure, and then I adorned it
> with a BSD Daemon sticker I got with my OpenBSD 2.8
> CD's.  :)  Here's a link to a photo.
> 
> http://buddha.jccc.net/~axon/0320/blackintosh.jpg
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions.  I'm
> open to trying to upgrade it without any help if it
> hasn't been done before.  It just runs a little test
> web-server and some network monitoring for my home
> network (snort and ntop).  Nothing I can't replace.
> 
> Noah Dunker
> Systems Analyst/Technician
> Johnson County Community College

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Pat Wendorf