From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Dec 4 6:35:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from zigman.2y.net (korpen-86-203.ip-pluggen.com [212.181.86.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3BBC37B416 for ; Tue, 4 Dec 2001 06:35:26 -0800 (PST) Received: by zigman.2y.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E6A011ECA; Tue, 4 Dec 2001 15:35:20 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 15:35:20 +0100 From: Morsal Roudbay To: Chris BeHanna Cc: FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-driver Message-ID: <20011204143520.GA67323@zigman.2y.net> Reply-To: Morsal Roudbay References: <20011130203259.GA35649@zigman.2y.net> <20011201024150.X71809-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011201024150.X71809-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.2i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.3 [up 5 days, 4:15, 1 user, load averages: 0.03, 0.06, 0.07] X-Return-Path: morsal@swipnet.se Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 02:45:18AM -0500, Chris BeHanna wrote: > On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Morsal Roudbay wrote: > > > Yes.. the PSU is a 300W unit made by AOpen... the server works flawless as > > long as I dont use the IDE drives too heavily. It only crashes when I do > > heavy IO on the IDE drives... for isntance ports (/usr/ports is on a IDE > > drive) as I mentioned earlier. > > Upgrade your power supply. Under heavy loads, some power supplies > cannot maintain the correct voltage for the CPU. 300W is marginal for > many modern systems. > > Antec is a very good brand. A 400W unit will set you back about > $100 US, but could save you lots of headaches. I have now verified that it isnt my powersupply. It is perfectly healthy so it must be the ATA driver that crashes the computer. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message