From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 18 21:48:51 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA24574 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 Dec 1995 21:48:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA24569 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 1995 21:48:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id QAA08990; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 16:20:05 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199512190550.QAA08990@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: reboots (SCSI) To: jason@oozoo.vnet.net (Jason Wright) Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 16:20:05 +1030 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, jason@oozoo.vnet.net In-Reply-To: <199512190442.XAA07559@postgres95.vnet.net> from "Jason Wright" at Dec 18, 95 11:42:03 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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." [[