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Date:      Tue, 22 Feb 2000 19:29:04 +0100
From:      Jesper Skriver <jesper@skriver.dk>
To:        Steve Kaczkowski <steve@inc.net>
Cc:        Stuart Henderson <sthen@naiad.eclipse.net.uk>, "Miguel A.L. Paraz" <map@iphil.net>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Monitoring the cause of Reboots
Message-ID:  <20000222192904.B3227@skriver.dk>
In-Reply-To: <38B2D407.846159C8@inc.net>; from steve@inc.net on Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 12:23:03PM -0600
References:  <20000222213608.B17354@tirad.internal.iphil.net> <20000222133737.F92704@naiad.eclipse.net.uk> <38B2CFD3.13D66A53@inc.net> <20000222182103.C917@naiad.eclipse.net.uk> <38B2D407.846159C8@inc.net>

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On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 12:23:03PM -0600, Steve Kaczkowski wrote:
> 
> > > I've got a number of Intel N440BX boards with FXP0 and NCR0 that I'm
> > > about to roll out, is there something I should know about!?
> > 
> > They may panic or double-panic under heavy load. I only
> > ever noticed this on my squid-caches (3mbps, 20-25 hits/sec).
> > 
> > Unexpected restarts on those machines are now only seen
> > rarely after switching to the higher-performance SYM driver.
> > You can find more at freebsd-questions (until freefall's
> > disks are happier, you may need to register for GeoCrawler
> > if you would like to search the archives).
> 
> UGH!
> 
> What boards are you suppose to use then? Geeze, I was under the
> impression that these boards were some of the highest quality
> ones out there, anyone have some other suggestions before I get too
> deep into these things..

Running 4.0-CURRENT (soon to be -RELEASE) we've such a box stable, but
that's using the sym driver instead of ncr ...


/Jesper

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