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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: I crashed my computer
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On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Alec Kloss wrote:

> Howdy.  I've been using FreeBSD for several months now (first version
> 2.1.6, then 2.2 and now 2.2.1) and it crashed for the first time ever
> (without a major hardware failure) yesterday.  I upgraded to 2.2.1
> last weekend from 2.2 and while I was at it, switched cdrom drives,
> adding a toshiba XM-5401B (SCSI) drive to replace a teac drive.  This 
> cdrom drive is flaky and often doesn't work.  I removed it yesterday 
> when the system crashed.  What are the odds that the cdrom drive was
> at fault?

You'll have to define "crashed".  The probes below look OK.

Make sure the new drive has the same SCSI ID as the old drive.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major