Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:33:54 -0600 From: "William D. Colburn (Schlake)" <schlake@gmail.com> To: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: My kernel panics sucked, but they seem to be gone now. Message-ID: <AANLkTi=AHa3-5Qp4arW6jHc3UmQxQPi8TaGGC%2BDv2Nqe@mail.gmail.com>
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A rehash of the problem: If my computer was plugged into the UPS and sitting on my metal desk the drive controllers would fail and cause a panic almost immediately when booted. If my computer was plugged into wall power and sitting on a wooden table, the machine ran flawlessly. New information: Removing the UPS, but leaving the computer on the metal desk make the panics happen a lot less, about every four to seven days. Sometimes after a crash it couldn't boot because no hard drives could be found at all, but that always went away with a few power cycles. One of my SATA cards has been with me since 2005. It was a rock solid card on my old FreBSD install...as long as I didn't plug anything into SATA port 2. I always had this feeling that something wasn't quite right with port 2 and that I should avoid it. But I'm running FreeBSD 8 now, and having strange problems. So I removed the card completely and my system hasn't crashed since. Which still doesn't prove it was the card. Removing the card could just have made it even more intermittent. In summary: I hate hardware almost as much as I hate linux. -- -- Schlake
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