From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 1 20:01:59 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81EC416A40A for ; Mon, 1 May 2006 20:01:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from greg@wholemeal.net) Received: from warprecords.com (dsl-212-135-210-82.dsl.easynet.co.uk [212.135.210.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E524743D45 for ; Mon, 1 May 2006 20:01:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from greg@wholemeal.net) Received: from [192.168.100.35] (HELO [192.168.0.3]) by warprecords.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP-TLS id 6251178 for freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org; Mon, 01 May 2006 21:01:57 +0100 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v749.3) In-Reply-To: <20060429120039.1A5B816A516@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20060429120039.1A5B816A516@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <1CBC6F85-AA8D-41C0-81F8-1803309CEE03@wholemeal.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Greg Eden Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 20:32:55 +0100 To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.749.3) Subject: Re: freebsd-proliant Digest, Vol 21, Issue 5 X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 20:01:59 -0000 > My question is, is there anything on the os and software level that > could > cause this behavior? or is it most likely bad hardware? I am concerned > because I noted an instance of the same error in the ilo logs of > our other > dl380, although on module 1, and i thought that the odds of both > having > bad ram/boards might be slim. Sadly not as slim as you'd like or hope. I had 3 DL360s and a DL380 delivered last year. One DL360 had bad EEC RAM (was reported in logs fortunately). Another DL360 had a dodgy SCSI backplace which meant drives would go missing. So that was 2 out of 4 delivered faulty. Having said that HP dealt with the faults quickly and sent advance replacements swiftly. And once running the machines have had up times of 6 months+, limited only by reboots for maintenance. Which is why I bought them :) best. greg.