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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 05:16:40 -0600
From: "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org>
To: neal@jennifer.pernet.net, questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Mysterious reboots
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>We have a problem with two 2.1.0-RELEASE machines.  One is a P5-100 with 
>64M and 3 2G SCSI drives with an aha2940.  The other is a DX4/100 with 
>32M and two Cyclades 16 port cards running with the stock driver and a 
>standard IDE HD.
>
>Both machines spontaneously reboot occasionally.  The DX4 used to lock up 
>completely, but now it's begun rebooting lately.
>
>Load doesn't seem to matter.  Reboots have occured both under high 
>load and low load with equal frquency.
>
>The DX4 is running as a terminal server on a subnet, so it's running 
>gated 3.5 Beta 6(read the latest "stable" version).  The P100 is running 
>Apache, INN, and mail(I know, it's overloaded, I'm working on it).
>
>There are no diagnostics printed either oon console or in the logs.  The 
>machine just reboots.
>
>Any clues, or can you point me in the right direction to give more useful 
>info?

I can't comment on the DX4/100, but the P5-100 with the Adaptec 2940 could
most likely benefit by upgrading to -stable.  There were some serious bug
fixes brought into -stable and -current for the ahc driver.

Dan Eischen
deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org