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Date:      27 Sep 2001 14:03:52 -0700
From:      swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen)
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   FreeBSD 4.3 & 4.4 crash when downloading files.
Message-ID:  <n0y9n0s5vr.9n0@localhost.localdomain>

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I've been trying to set up my old 5 GB Maxtor on an old 486 to
do daily backups (I go to tape infrequently) but keep crashing FreeBSD.

I've tried a few combinations of a 486/66 EISA system (1991), a 486/120 PCI
system (1994), FreeBSD 4.3 STABLE and 4.4 RELEASE, with the OS fully on a 
Maxtor 90576D4 (5.3 GB) or a Maxtor 7540AV (514 MB).  Also different NICs
which used different drivers.  Memory passes "memtest 2.7".

The OS keeps crashing hard during file download from my main computer,
whether I use FTP or NFS.

How should I approach solving this problem?  Do I need to learn how to
run a kernel debugger?  Do I need to turn on verbose logging somehow?
Is my reporting of what's output to the screen at crash time going to
be worth the effort until I find someone interested in the problem?
Any way to get kernel crash output to go to a file too?

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