From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Feb 23 19:28:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA26357 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 19:28:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail-gw.pacbell.net (mail-gw.pacbell.net [206.13.28.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA26242 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 19:27:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from oski@pacbell.net) Received: from pacbell.net (ppp-207-215-86-72.scrm01.pacbell.net [207.215.86.72]) by mail-gw.pacbell.net (8.8.8/8.7.1+antispam) with ESMTP id TAA17496; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 19:27:12 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <34F23D89.6440660A@pacbell.net> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 19:24:57 -0800 From: Michael Oski X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Mayo CC: Steve Grandi , Paul Sandys , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I need a strategy for making my STABLE installation stable References: <19980223214315.08888@vmunix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk OK, I'll throw a couple of penny's too - quick; duck! I've been running stable on a piece of crap motherboard (one of the $59.95 jobs) with a 2940UW in "ultra" mode for months. It doesn't do too much heavy duty work, mostly IP gateway and DNS stuff. I have never had a problem with this controller or the Seagate drives connected to it (of course, I probably will immediately following the send of this message ;-)) I'm interested in seeing the results of your next dump... Good luck! Mark Mayo wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 1998 at 02:51:33PM -0700, Steve Grandi wrote: > > An excellent suggestion: I have just ordered a replacement internal SCSI > > cable as well! > > I agree - SCSI cables can be finicky(sp?), and I have had the > personal experience in the past of a crappy power supply causing all > sorts of crap. Or more specifically, an overloaded power-suply.. > Since you've replaced just about everything else in your system, > that's all I can think of :) > > Another interesting thing about the Adaptec 2940UW - I have a PPro200 > that I was using with some strange motherboard that a systems contract > produced -- it would not work reliably at all with "ultra" turned on. > Worked fine with ultra turned off. I swapped motherboards for a nice > Asus P65UP5 and it has worked perfectly with the exact same hardware > and Ultra turned ON... So there are lots of factors at work when > trying to squeeze the most out of PC hardware. :-( > > Just my $.02, > -Mark > > > > > Steve Grandi, National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, Arizona USA > > Internet: grandi@noao.edu Voice: +1 520 318-8228 > > > > > > On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Paul Sandys wrote: > > > > > > > > I suggest you try different power supply. I also spent 3 months > > > replacing parts in one FreeBSD server with random crashes, and it ended up > > > being the SCSI cable, which worked for 2 years straight before ..... > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Mark Mayo mark@vmunix.com > RingZero Comp. http://www.vmunix.com/mark > > finger mark@vmunix.com for my PGP key and GCS code > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "The problem is how do you build tools that understand your programs > at a deeper semantic level." - James Gosling > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message