From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 22 14:22:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.tgd.net (rand.tgd.net [64.81.67.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4EBE637B422 for ; Tue, 22 May 2001 14:22:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sean@mailhost.tgd.net) Received: (qmail 32705 invoked by uid 1001); 22 May 2001 21:22:37 -0000 Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 14:22:37 -0700 From: Sean Chittenden To: Matt Dillon Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Continuing ahc problems - also cause fxp failure Message-ID: <20010522142237.I72878@rand.tgd.net> References: <200105220925.f4M9Paf00409@earth.backplane.com> <20010522022905.Z72878@rand.tgd.net> <200105222118.f4MLI2S10482@earth.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="E0LdhqWfziiBVv4P" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200105222118.f4MLI2S10482@earth.backplane.com>; from "dillon@earth.backplane.com" on Tue, May 22, 2001 at = 02:18:02PM X-PGP-Key: 0x1EDDFAAD X-PGP-Fingerprint: C665 A17F 9A56 286C 5CFB 1DEA 9F4F 5CEF 1EDD FAAD X-Web-Homepage: http://sean.chittenden.org/ X-All-your-base: are belong to us. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --E0LdhqWfziiBVv4P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Try this: rewind back in time and install a copy of 4.1 or something like that. If the problem is less frequent, then you may be right. If the crashing doesn't change, then suspect hardware. I push _tons_ of traffic over almost the exact hardware and haven't had any troubles, that's why I'm a skeptic of the hardware. ;~) -sc > : I think your motherboard or CPU is dead. I've seen this > :behavior before and my conclusion was a combination of heat and bad > :hardware. <:~) -sc > =20 > It seems unlikely. The Dell 2400 is housed in a well ventilated > room connected to the building's AC. It never gets hot in there, > and the problems seem related to heavy disk and network activity, > and the FreeBSD OS rev, not heat. Still, I suppose it's possible. >=20 > I'm going to try updating the BIOS tonight but it's a long shot. >=20 > -Matt --=20 Sean Chittenden --E0LdhqWfziiBVv4P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Sean Chittenden iEYEARECAAYFAjsK2JwACgkQn09c7x7d+q2a1wCfRnl6OiQC+oR1bwwP/pfGcTbT 8A8AnRceqhy1G/dK8NgFsNV31K7MLZ3c =Z/RI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --E0LdhqWfziiBVv4P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message