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Date:      Thu, 23 Oct 2003 21:06:53 +0100
From:      Scott Mitchell <scott+freebsd@fishballoon.org>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: aic7896 SCB timeout - is this a sign of impending doom?
Message-ID:  <20031023200653.GA66377@llama.fishballoon.org>
In-Reply-To: <20031023091010.V79600@carver.gumbysoft.com>
References:  <20031022212556.GA48208@llama.fishballoon.org> <20031022153722.P71676@carver.gumbysoft.com> <20031023085231.GA57527@llama.fishballoon.org> <20031023091010.V79600@carver.gumbysoft.com>

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On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 09:15:25AM -0700, Doug White wrote:
> 
> Yeah, it wouldn't be the first time SCSI backplanes have gone bad.  You
> have this in an Astor or Columbus chassis?

Actually a 'Hudson' SC5000 chassis, with the redundant PSUs and hot-swap
cage.  They've proved to be at least as - if not more - reliable than the
considerably more expensive Proliants that the Windows servers run on.
 
> Unfortunately they run a really old version of the IPMI spec, otherwise I
> have some scripts that can inquiry for temperature data.  Maybe sometime
> I'll get bored and backport the stuff to IPMI 0.9.

That would be cool.  Let me know if you need anything testing :-)

	Scott

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