Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 01:22:55 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: gibbs@freefall.FreeBSD.org (Justin T. Gibbs) Cc: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov, rashid@haven.ios.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: S.O.S -2.1Stable and ASUSP54TP4 Message-ID: <199508281552.BAA23359@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199508281543.IAA09248@freefall.FreeBSD.org> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Aug 28, 95 08:43:32 am
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> >My question: what is it about the heat that causes the OS to crash? > >Or is it not the OS, but the system as a whole? And what is it about > >SCSI tape writes? Other SCSI activity works fine. > > > >Confused. Heat affects electronic components; as they get hotter, their performance changes, and circuits stop working. Regardless of operating system, the drive would stop writing successfully. As Justin observed, FreeBSD _shouldn't_ barf the moment something on the SCSI bus hiccups, but testing that sort of thing is difficult... > >Sean Kelly -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[
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