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Date:      Thu, 26 Jul 2001 02:18:18 -0700
From:      "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
To:        "Karel J. Bosschaart" <karelj@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl>
Cc:        "Jim Arnold" <jim@ohio.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: spontaneous reboots: how common in general?
Message-ID:  <00a301c115b3$e817fce0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010726104937.A53426@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl>

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Do you have any information on whether this started happening with
a new release version?  If the system was fine on 4.2-RELEASE and
earlier then submit a PR - also you may want to reference PR i386/27042 - and
include your dmesg output.  I would not submit a troublesome ISO unless asked
to do so by a developer.

Ted Mittelstaedt                                       tedm@toybox.placo.com
Author of:                           The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide
Book website:                          http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Karel J. Bosschaart [mailto:karelj@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl]
>Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 1:50 AM
>To: Ted Mittelstaedt
>Cc: Jim Arnold; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>Subject: Re: spontaneous reboots: how common in general?
>
>
>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/fr
>eebsd-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.
>
><snip reboot when trying to copy file from CDROM>
>


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