Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 23:44:44 +0100 From: Luke Roberts <luke@roberts.nl> To: Gerald Heinig <heinig@hdz-ima.rwth-aachen.de>, isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Black tuesday :-( Message-ID: <4.2.2.19991130233731.00ade6b0@pop.roberts.nl> In-Reply-To: <38444FEE.977FC696@hdz-ima.rwth-aachen.de>
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Hi Gerald, >I ifconfig=B4ed up isp0, did a fetchmail and got the BIOS message. In >other words: fetchmail... 3 seconds...blank screen...BIOS startup >message. I remember having this problem on a black Sunday and the cause, which had=20 nothing to do with the machine or software, was very simple: a very short power failure, aka a brownout, but enough to quickly power=20 down and reboot the machine. Of course your power supply could be faulty in= =20 stead. >Also, I=B4d like a few tips on how to go about preparing for a repeat. I >assume this bug (if indeed it is a bug!) is *very* rare, since, give or >take a protocol message or two in earlier versions, I haven=B4t heard so >much as a squeak from my setup for several months. The solution was very simple: A UPS batterypack hooked up to the FreeBSD=20 machine. Hope this helps, Luke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isdn" in the body of the message
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