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Date:      Thu, 27 Sep 2001 19:38:55 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
To:        Dan <dphoenix@bravenet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: power supplies
Message-ID:  <3BB3E2BF.648840A7@owt.com>
References:  <20010927184223.J1885-100000@gandalf.bravenet.com>

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Dan wrote:
> 
> I had the stangest situation today where a new nic card was put into a
> machine and then the machine did not start up. Placed the old nic card
> back in the box and it still did not start up. Switched power supplies
> with an exactly equal box and both machine booted up fine. This has
> happened twice since we started replacing nic cards today with ones with
> more buffer space available on them out of about 8 machines now.
> 
> Does this make any sense to anyone?

There are problems with PSes when you use NICs with wake up
capability. The NIC may exceed the capability of one of your low
amperage voltages.

Kent

> 
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> Dan
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> |              BRAVENET WEB SERVICES                   |
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> |      screen;cd /usr/src;make buildworld;cd ~         |
> |     cp MYKERNEL /sys/i386/conf;cd /usr/src           |
> |        make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL            |
> |make installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL;make installworld|
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Kent Stewart
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