From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 26 1:50:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl (wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl [131.155.56.216]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D62437B409 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 01:50:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from karelj@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl) Received: (from karelj@localhost) by wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f6Q8ncX53467; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 10:49:38 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from karelj) Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 10:49:37 +0200 From: "Karel J. Bosschaart" To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Jim Arnold , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: spontaneous reboots: how common in general? Message-ID: <20010726104937.A53426@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> References: <002c01c11596$22fa6f00$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <002c01c11596$22fa6f00$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>; from tedm@toybox.placo.com on Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 10:45:11PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 10:45:11PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > I'll bet your running an IDE cdrom right? > > Stuff like this doesen't happen with SCSI because the SCSI command > set is very tightly defined. IDE/ATAPI on the other hand, particularly > with CDROMs, is spec of the month. > I have this trouble with SCSI CDROMs as well, and reported to the -stable list couple of weeks ago, but didn't get any response: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=871407+0+archive/2001/freebsd-stable/20010617.freebsd-stable Would it make sense to send-pr this and provide a troublesome iso-image by anon ftp? Meanwhile I found that also -current (as of around 15 June) has the same problem as well, with SCSI CDROM. But generally, I'm very happy with the stability of FreeBSD; I had some RAM problems causing spontaneous reboots, and I once had very weird freezes that only happened with one certain program (run as normal user), on a K6-2 processor with a certain stepping version, so I suppose there was some odd hardware problem involved. But on recent FreeBSD versions even the crashing K6-2's now appear to work perfectly with that program. Karel. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message