From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 26 2:18:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A51137B401 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 02:18:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f6Q9II848330; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 02:18:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Karel J. Bosschaart" Cc: "Jim Arnold" , Subject: RE: spontaneous reboots: how common in general? Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 02:18:18 -0700 Message-ID: <00a301c115b3$e817fce0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 In-Reply-To: <20010726104937.A53426@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> 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 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. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message