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Date:      Thu, 20 Feb 2003 10:04:33 -0600
From:      "Song" <song@isot.com>
To:        "'Chuck Swiger'" <cswiger@mac.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Diagnosing System Lockups
Message-ID:  <004001c2d8f9$c543b3c0$46efa13f@Felix>
In-Reply-To: <3E54F501.5030308@mac.com>

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I'll try memtest and cpuburn first.  Thanks.


-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Swiger [mailto:cswiger@mac.com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 9:32 AM
To: song@isot.com
Subject: Re: Diagnosing System Lockups

Hello--

itchibahn wrote:
> I'm wondering if hard drive would cause it to lock up?  It's one of
those new 
> WesternDigital 80GB IDE with 8MB buffer.  I believe normal IDE's have
only 2MB 
> buffer.

If you were having hard drive problems, certainly you could get a 
lockup.  But that would very probably leave copious messages in the 
logfiles, too.  I have a WD1000JB myself, and I think they're great 
drives.  I posted a longer soliquy on hard drive manufacturers recently.

Anyway, it's more likely that you've got heating problems or maybe a 
flaky power supply.  Check into those, and/or run something like memtest

or cpuburn (from the ports).

-Chuck





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