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Date:      Mon, 01 Mar 2004 14:21:14 -0500
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        Doug Silver <dsilver@urchin.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Unexplained reboots with 4.9
Message-ID:  <6.0.3.0.0.20040301141838.102a2988@209.112.4.2>
In-Reply-To: <200403010859.16585.dsilver@urchin.com>
References:  <200403010859.16585.dsilver@urchin.com>

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In my experience, this would be bad hardware. If you have the machine setup 
to save crash dumps (you have something like dumpdev="/dev/twed0s1b" in 
rc.conf right?) and it never saves one I would lean towards hardware as the 
cause.  If you can hookup a serial console to it to log any panic's to the 
screen and if its always in a different location or you never see a panic 
message, this would further point to hardware.

         ---Mike

At 11:59 AM 01/03/2004, Doug Silver wrote:
>I recently brought up an old 700MHz P3 4.9 machine and added a 3ware IDE raid
>card 7506-8 with 4 120Gb drives in a raid 5 array.  It will randomly reboot,
>about once-per-day and even though I'm running a debug kernel, it does not
>leave any crash information (which I assume just means that the kernel did
>not panic and dump core).  After the first few times, I upgraded to a new
>400W power supply.  The machine is not heavily loaded and its primary
>function is for NFS/samba sharing.
>
>Any ideas for trying to figure out what is wrong with this machine?
>
>Thanks.
>
>-Doug
>
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