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-Where have I been for a week?  Working on Disk Replication, memory testing and disk test/wipe, mainly.  The inflow was relatively low during that time. I did a little with the '''smartmontools''' package, which I think should probably become a standard part of disk testing.  I use it when wiping/testing the hard drives in the Mac Build area.
-Script [[Mac Build Scripts#genMacDisk.sh|genMacDisk.sh]] works, creating a Ubuntu Edgy bootable hard drive that looks pretty much like the one created by the Ubuntu installer.  I don't think it covers all of the PowerMac tower boot-device configurations.  It might bebetter to leave that for a post-creation step.  I'll have to think about that somemore.
-''G4 Powerbook''
-Audio does not seem to be configuring during installation on the G4/700 flat-panel and the G4 Powerbook. [http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2005-June/023998.html This] forum article suggests a fix.
-The 800MHz G4 Powerbook battery seems to be pretty much shot.  Tests showed battery life to be about 6 minutes.  I asked Dave to leave it plugged in overnight in the Black Hole to see if prolonged charging would have any effect.
-The CD drive may actually be a SuperDrive, or CD-RW.  If it's using SCSI emulation, '''cdrecord --scanbus''' might find it.   I got the model number from '''/proc/ide/hd?''', which could be googled.