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Date:      	Tue, 23 Jan 1996 09:13:31 -0800 (PST)
From:      Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com>
To:        "Heiko W.Rupp" <hwr@snert.pilhuhn.de>
Cc:        gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org, hwr@pilhuhn.de, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: spontaneous reboot with -stable
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960123091050.12568A-100000@haven.uniserve.com>
In-Reply-To: <m0tedah-0000zzC@snert.pilhuhn.de>

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On Tue, 23 Jan 1996, Heiko W.Rupp wrote:

> Tom Samplonious:
> 
> >   I agree completely.  Although, I'm still using a preliminary version of 
> > the new driver, I'm seeing a record uptime of 14 days and counting.  
> 
> I still have the old driver and my uptimes were 21 and 14 days. 
> Yesterday it crashed two times within an hour and one time it was 
> within close() ...
> 
> > Previously, the record was 10 days, followed by 3 days.  Every other time it 
> > would crash consistently every two days.
> 
> Hm? Has your computer been stable before? 

  Not with a 2940 in it.  Disk hangs and total lockups were common under 
the old driver.  Problems were also experienced with wcarchive, which is 
why a lot of the changes were made.

  It seems that only users with 2842's (and maybe 2742's) seem to have a 
problem with the new driver.

Tom



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