Heinz, The problem was with external scsi devices (esp. scanners) not being recognized. Here's a TIL article about it: http://til.info.apple.com/techinfo.nsf/artnum/n20593 There was also some deal with having to install an update version of drive setup or else if your computer went into sleep mode, the hard drive wouldn't ever wake up and you'd get a flashing question mark. So, either of these two issues might be what that update is for because they are sort of specific to the 6400 model and its close cousins. Seth Heinz Nabielek wrote:

That is funny, because my SCSI disk _always_ worked reliably on the Performa6400. However, I could never install MkLinux, because it got stuck on the built-in ATA disk.

Heinz

seth johnson wrote:

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Heinz,

I have no idea what that would be for. I used to work in tech support at Apple, though, and I do remember that around the time of 7.6.X there was a special patch for the Performa 6400's to handle some sort of scsi flakiness. That was a long time ago, so I've forgotten what it was all about, but I seem to recollect that the flakiness related to scsi devices not showing up on the chain rather than the computer crashing, etc. Perhaps this is some update to address that hardware-related issue?

Seth

Heinz Nabielek wrote:

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What is ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/BETA/devel/machines/apple_performa6400_200/ meant for?

It does not contain anything, but SuSE 6.4 for PowerPC is running fine on my Performa 6400/200-

except that I cannot emulate middle/right mouse buttons. Heinz