From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 14 8:58:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from yertle.kciLink.com (yertle.kcilink.com [216.194.193.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1FB237B419 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 08:58:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from onceler.kciLink.com (onceler.kciLink.com [216.194.193.106]) by yertle.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8921B1E87B for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 11:58:29 -0500 (EST) Received: (from khera@localhost) by onceler.kciLink.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBEGwTP95399 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 11:58:29 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from khera) Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 11:58:29 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200112141658.fBEGwTP95399@onceler.kciLink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Vivek Khera To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: keeping a system in use during a complete rebuild? Newsgroups: ml.freebsd.questions References: <200112131930.fBDJUNO15648@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Trace: lorax.kciLink.com 1008348171 55006 216.194.193.106 (14 Dec 2001 16:42:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: daemon@kciLink.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "d" == dochawk writes: >> operating correctly now? You will definitely want to make sure of that >> before spending the time to rebuild/reinstall everything. d> IBM claims so :) they swapped it. The other month I had dell out at my datacenter replacing a bad motherboard. Conveniently enough, the replacement had *exactly* the same error in it when we ran diagnostics on it. 4 hours later, and yet another MB, it worked. Don't assume it is good unless your diags tell you so. Even then, don't assume it unless you observe no errors. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-240-453-8497 AIM: vivekkhera Y!: vivek_khera http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message