From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 14 12:45:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pan.ch.intel.com (chfdns01.ch.intel.com [143.182.246.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 675D937B4EC for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 12:45:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from sedona.intel.com (sedona.ch.intel.com [143.182.218.21]) by pan.ch.intel.com (8.9.1a+p1/8.9.1/d: relay.m4,v 1.35 2001/02/12 09:03:45 smothers Exp $) with ESMTP id UAA13416; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 20:45:08 GMT Received: from hip186.ch.intel.com (hip186.ch.intel.com [143.182.225.68]) by sedona.intel.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/d: sendmail.cf,v 1.14 2001/01/02 18:39:59 steved Exp $) with ESMTP id NAA29992; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 13:45:08 -0700 (MST) X-Envelope-From: jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com Received: (from jreynold@localhost) by hip186.ch.intel.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/d: client.m4,v 1.3 1998/09/29 16:36:11 sedayao Exp sedayao $) id PAA09005; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 15:45:08 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: hip186.ch.intel.com: jreynold set sender to jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com using -f From: John Reynolds~ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14986.61012.321908.836461@hip186.ch.intel.com> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 13:45:08 -0700 (MST) To: "Eric L. Howard" Cc: FreeBSD Stable E-mail LIst Subject: Re: just keep on crashing... In-Reply-To: <20010214143910.A3906@ameritech.net> References: <20010214143910.A3906@ameritech.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under Emacs 20.7.2 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [ On Wednesday, February 14, Eric L. Howard wrote: ] > I'm attempting to get 4.2 up on a homebrew. > > ASUS P2B-DS mobo w/ onboard aic7xxx > 2 - Seagate ST39204LW U2 drives > Dual PIII 700Mhz > > I'm almost consistently running into problems when I go to do stuff like cvsup > or even installing some packages. Seems as if whenever I get into something > pushing the drives heavy and consistently for any sustained period the machines > crashes. > Well, for what it's worth, I have a P2B-DS running dual Pentium III 500's (which is as high as my board can deal with as I have the "older" revision without support for the coppermine core) and two LVD U2 Quantum Viking II drives, a CD-RW, CD-ROM, and Seagate TapeStor 8000 drive all on the onboard controller. Never had a lick of trouble with it. Maybe your RAM is flakey? have you tried testing it or swapping a "known good" DIMM in? I don't know if those drives might be to blame.... -Jr -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | John Reynolds WCCG, CCE, Higher Levels of Abstraction | | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092 pgr: 602-868-6512 | | jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message