From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 28 08:58:35 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id IAA10285 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 28 Aug 1995 08:58:35 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA10273 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 1995 08:58:30 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id BAA23359; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 01:22:56 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199508281552.BAA23359@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: S.O.S -2.1Stable and ASUSP54TP4 To: gibbs@freefall.FreeBSD.org (Justin T. Gibbs) Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 01:22:55 +0930 (CST) Cc: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov, rashid@haven.ios.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199508281543.IAA09248@freefall.FreeBSD.org> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Aug 28, 95 08:43:32 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 938 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > >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! [[