From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Sep 20 11:37:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5554E37B423; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 11:37:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #2) id 13bojv-0003Eo-00; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 18:37:03 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8KIcPL01981; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 20:38:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 20:38:25 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Chris Dillon Cc: BSD , bugs@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Constant panics on 4.1-STABLE! Message-ID: <20000920203825.B425@freebie.demon.nl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us on Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 11:00:59AM -0500 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 11:00:59AM -0500, Chris Dillon wrote: > On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, BSD wrote: > > > I'm running 4.1-STABLE on a 700MHz Athlon with a 300W power supply > > (only recently did I learn that 250W wasn't enough), a single Maxtor > > 40.9GB hard drive (UDMA/66, 7200RPM), an Abit KA7 motherboard, with > > normally 768MBs of PC133 RAM (non-ECC). An fxp0 device, and a generic PCI > > video card. pci0: at > > 13.0 irq 10. There's a floppy drive, and a 2-fan hard drive cooling unit > > that mounts in the front of 5.25" slot which houses the maxtor via > > mounting brackets. > > > > Even though 300W is considered the "minimum" by some for Athlon > > supplies, I think my minimal hardware should make it a stable option. > > > > The multiple panics were in the following sequence: > > > > 1) Server is booted with all DIMMs, on a BP6. PANIC. > > The BP6 is a pretty solid 440BX based board, so I doubt that is the > culprit. FreeBSD has no problems with this board or the PIII > you're using on it. It's the memory. > > > 2) Server is booted with all DIMMS, on a KA7. PANIC. > > The KA7 is a VIA KX133 based board. I have never found VIA chipsets > to be reliable. However, it is probably the memory which is at fault. For the record: KA7 is rock stable here with 4.1-stable and 128Mb of ECC RAM. -- Wilko Bulte wilko@freebsd.org Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message