Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 16:20:05 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: jason@oozoo.vnet.net (Jason Wright) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, jason@oozoo.vnet.net Subject: Re: reboots (SCSI) Message-ID: <199512190550.QAA08990@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199512190442.XAA07559@postgres95.vnet.net> from "Jason Wright" at Dec 18, 95 11:42:03 pm
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Jason Wright stands accused of saying: > > > I've been having the worst luck here of late using FreeBSD as a > file server. The system is a 486dx/2-66, 32Mb of memory, > 2 PCI Adaptec cards, 1 ISA (AHA1520), Std VGA. > > The first (ahc0) PCI AHA card has 6 drives on it. > sd0 - st32550n (Seagate Hawk? 2Gb) > sd1 - st15230n (Seagate Hawk 4Gb) > sd2 - st12550n (Seagate baracuda 2Gb) > sd3 - st42400n (Seagate Wren full-height 2Gb) > sd4 - st43400n (Seagate Wren full-height 3Gb) > sd5 - st41400n (Seagate Wren full-height 1Gb) > > The second controller (ahc1) currently is empty, and the ISA card (aic0) has > a single 2Gb tape drive on it. > > I've have been experiencing uptimes anywhere from 3 days to 4 hours (not > too good, eh?) Talk to us about your termination and cooling arrangements, cable lengths, cable and connector types, grounding and power supply arrangement. If you can get one, wave a portable thermometer around and talk to us about air on and off temperatures as well. > I'm almost at my wits end trying to solve this problem (and my Boss has > suggested SCO, please save me!). Seriously, any help comments or ideas > would be greatly appreciated. I'd say it's most likely to be a hardware problem, so I wouldn't think that SCO will do anything for you other than waste more time. The ahc driver is justin's baby; he may have more to say about this... > jason@oozoo.vnet.net -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 041-122-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[
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