From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 13 18:15: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9990837B689 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 18:15:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@nasby.net) Received: from nasby.net (sysnasby@2.nasby.dsl.enteract.com [216.80.51.18]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA11780; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 20:15:02 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jim@nasby.net) Message-ID: <38CDA0A7.91067958@nasby.net> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 20:15:03 -0600 From: "Jim C. Nasby" Organization: distributed.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en-US,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brad Knowles Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List Subject: Re: Weirdest crash I ever saw... References: <20000313160932.E40149@enteract.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brad Knowles wrote: > > At 4:09 PM -0600 2000/3/13, Jim C. Nasby wrote: > > > Speaking as a BSEE, the 240V 'leak' is either due to the building wiring or > > due to very poor design (or both). If possible, try plugging both > >the computer > > and the RAID array into the same outlet (I don't know if your in the US or > > not, so I don't know if your standard voltage is 120V or 240V). > > I'm in Belgium, so standard is 240VAC @ 50Hz. > > > In any case, I would very strongly suggest you find the problem and fix it, > > as it could prove to be fatal. > > Fatal to me, or fatal to the equipment? I've already had a Yes, and yes. > number of unpleasant shocks, but so far nothing has been more than > unpleasant. Interestingly, there was a small amount of leakage even What is currently (no pun intended) no more than unpleasant could easily turn lethal depending on what's going on. > when both systems were turned off and I touched both the case of the > Comparex D1400 (Hitachi DF400) and a grounding pin on the same power > strip that the drive array is plugged into, which I have to assume > comes from the internal batteries in the array. Batteries or no, you shouldn't have been able to feel anything that way. Sounds like there's something wrong with the equipment. I still wouldn't rule out the building wiring either. > If we're talking about fatal to the equipment, that's a much more > serious issue. ;-) > > -- > These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy > ====================================================================== > Brad Knowles, || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV > Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 > Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels > http://www.skynet.be || Belgium > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Jim C. Nasby (aka Decibel!) /^\ jim@nasby.net /___\ Freelance lighting designer and database developer / | \ Member: Triangle Fraternity, Sports Car Club of America /___|___\ Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Get paid to surf!! http://www.enteract.com/~nasby/alladvantage.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message