Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 10:57:11 -0400 From: Barney Wolff <barney@tp.databus.com> To: The Anarcat <anarcat@dojo.tao.ca> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Spontaneous reboot, no panic. Recovering from a crash. Message-ID: <20010405105711.A17397@tp.databus.com> In-Reply-To: <20010405144225.D79D54E75@dojo.tao.ca>; from anarcat@dojo.tao.ca on Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 09:42:25AM -0500 References: <20010405144225.D79D54E75@dojo.tao.ca>
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How big is your power supply, and is it working up to snuff? The new 40-50x cd drives draw quite a lot of power when they get spinning fast. I had an old Gateway case/ps that would not handle a K6-3/400 with 40x cd-rom copying to an ide hard drive. I replaced the cd-rom with an older 8x and have had no trouble How big is your power supply, and is it working up to snuff? The new 40-50x cd drives draw quite a lot of power when they get spinning fast. I had an old Gateway case/ps that would not handle a K6-3/400 with 40x cd-rom copying to an ide hard drive. I replaced the cd-rom with an older 8x and have had no trouble since. In my case, the system would freeze in the middle of the fbsd (4.0-rel) install with the fast cd-rom drive. Barney Wolff On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 09:42:25AM -0500, The Anarcat wrote: > > What particular this time is that I was doing a copy off my SCSI CDR. That's > the unusual thing. > > I will try to reproduce the crash tonight. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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