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To: "Rashid Karimov." <rashid@haven.ios.com>
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Subject: Re: S.O.S -2.1Stable and ASUSP54TP4 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 28 Aug 95 10:45:34 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 08:09:22 -0700
From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.FreeBSD.org>
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>		Hi there folx,
>
>	After having a lot of problems with different
>	motherboards under FreeBSD I've switched to the
>	"editor's choice" - ASUS P54TP4 mb.,which was
>	recommended here by Jordan :)
>	Few problems went away ( like random reboots and
>	stuff), but oneremains consistent:
>
>	the freaking system loks each and every day and
>	I think this is because of .... something related
>	to HD activity/driver/adapter/whatever.
>
>	The system is P90,Adaptec 2940 PCI _SCSI adapter,
>	SMC EtherPower.
>
>
>	The symptoms:
>
>	system locks at random times w/o any messages at the console/
>	log files. Locks means the system becomes unreachable neither
>	from the local net nor from the console
>	After I hit "reboot" switch, system reboots up to the fsck
>	level and it starts complaining that it can't read partition
>	information off the second HDD ( Seagate Barracuda 4 Gb) (!).
>
>	If one hits "reboot" again and goes to the Adaptec BIOS and runs
>	disk utilities --> media check from there - the BIOS (!) complains
>	that it can not  talk to the second HD.

It sounds like your Barracuda is overheating.

>	Rashid
>

--
Justin T. Gibbs
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  Software Developer - Walnut Creek CDROM
  FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations
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