Date: 23 Sep 2001 19:17:15 -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: <a966a9xrh0.6a9@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 much less frequently) 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 Maxtor 7540AV (514 MB). Also different NICs which used different drivers. The OS keeps crashing hard during file download from my main computer, whether I use FTP client or NFS (I forget whether it was client or server). How should I approach solving this problem? Do I have to learn how to run a kernel debugger? Do I have 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 it to go to a file too? Should I be trying this message on -hackers or -stable or -??? instead of -questions? Thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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