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Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 18:57:50 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org>
To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, nick@capella.grayphics.com
Subject: Re: 2.2.1R + Adaptec 2940UW + Microp 3243WT spontaneous reboot
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> I recently upgraded from 2.1.5-R to 2.2.1-R, and added a wide Micropolis
> 3243WT.  Since the installation, the machine has spontaneously rebooted
> itself, and I cannot find anything in the logs to suggest why.  I remember
> reading something recently about an updated ahc driver to fix this
> problem... is this the case?
> 
> For reference, there were a few such reboots before the upgrade, over the
> course of 6-8 months.  I had suspected then that they might be due to the
> SCSI card, but this was before I had heard of others having the same
> problem.
>
> Thank you in advance to anyone who is able to shed some light on this.

Use sup, CVSup, or CTM and upgrade to 2.2-stable.  There were bugs
in the aic7xxx driver at the time 2.2-RELEASE was made.

Dan Eischen
deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org