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Cc: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: dell Power Edge 2950
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On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Dennis Glatting wrote:

> As stupid as this is going to sound, I solved my dump problem on one of
> my 2950s running amd64 7.0 with two dual core processors.
>
> The problem was when I did a level 0 dump, regardless of partition. At 
> random times the dump would halt, never to resume. Restarting the dump

Did you disable the "randomly schedule a RAID parity check of random 
sectors" feature in the PERC5 BIOS?

~BAS