Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 01:17:51 -0500 From: "Eric L. Howard" <ehoward@ameritech.net> To: Jeff Lee <dibble@cc.gatech.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Stable E-mail LIst <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: just keep on crashing... Message-ID: <20010215011751.B846@ameritech.net> In-Reply-To: <000d01c096ca$715f3900$38934dc7@cnd.gatech.edu>; from dibble@cc.gatech.edu on Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 04:09:39PM -0500 References: <20010214143910.A3906@ameritech.net> <14986.61012.321908.836461@hip186.ch.intel.com> <000d01c096ca$715f3900$38934dc7@cnd.gatech.edu>
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At a certain time, now past, Jeff Lee spake thusly: > I would be willing to bet on the memory as well. My 486DX machine > with an atapi maxtor hd and 12 Mb of good solid RAM doesn't have any > probs with pkg_install or make. Takes quite a while, but usually no > problems. > > ################# > Jeff Lee > dibble@cc.gatech.edu > PGP ID: 0xDDB291A5 > --------8<--snip-------- > > > > [ On Wednesday, February 14, Eric L. Howard wrote: ] > > > I'm attempting to get 4.2 up on a homebrew. > > > > > > ASUS P2B-DS mobo w/ onboard aic7xxx > > > 2 - Seagate ST39204LW U2 drives > > > Dual PIII 700Mhz > > > > > > I'm almost consistently running into problems when I go to do > > > stuff like cvsup or even installing some packages. Seems as if > > > whenever I get into something pushing the drives heavy and > > > consistently for any sustained period the machines crashes. > > > > > > > Well, for what it's worth, I have a P2B-DS running dual Pentium III > > 500's (which is as high as my board can deal with as I have the > > "older" revision without support for the coppermine core) and two > > LVD U2 Quantum Viking II drives, a CD-RW, CD-ROM, and Seagate > > TapeStor 8000 drive all on the onboard controller. Never had a lick > > of trouble with it. > > > > Maybe your RAM is flakey? have you tried testing it or swapping a > > "known good" DIMM in? I don't know if those drives might be to > > blame.... > > --------8<--snip-------- OK...I'm on my third machine here and I THINK I may have found a winner...I got to swapping parts on the couple I had open and things didn't get much better. At least on this third one, I've only had problems w/ the NIC. By the look of things (I have 4 boxen yet to open and crank up), the whole thing could end up having been a 'damaged during shipping problem'. Thanks to all for the suggestions. ~ELH~ -- E r i c L. H o w a r d e h o w a r d @ a m e r i t e c h . n e t //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// "You can't hold a man down without staying down with him." -Booker T. Washington PGP KeyID:0x27586E9B Fingerprint:0BF7 F677 E4F3 E2F1 ACBF F786 754A 8F11 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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