Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:43:23 -0500 From: "Andrew C. Hornback" <achornback@worldnet.att.net> To: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com>, "Greg Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: Mysterious boot during the night Message-ID: <002701c16fda$ca673680$6600000a@ach.domain> In-Reply-To: <034101c16fd9$aebc31c0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Anthony > Atkielski > Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 9:35 PM > To: Greg Lehey; FreeBSD Questions > Subject: Re: Mysterious boot during the night > > Greg writes: > > > The disks are the obvious thing to look at, since > > seti@home keeps RAM busy as well. > > That also occurred to me. Both memory and processor--especially > the latter--are > well exercised by SETI, as far as I can tell. So the only thing that gets > intermitted exercise is the disk. SETI doesn't seem to do a lot > of disk I/O, > except to take an occasional checkpoint. And then there is that > mysterious > coincidence of the cron job running at the moment of failure. Just to be safe, I'd still seek some kind of diagnostic just to make sure. Ruling something out before you've tested it can lead to nagging problems that "just can't happen"... > > Now we're getting closer. There were problems > > with IDE data corruption and the VT82C686B. sos > > committed a fix to -CURRENT about 2 months ago: > > How can I tell if this fix is in my machine? I installed from a > set of Wind > River CDs, marked as FreeBSD 4.3 (without much additional > information), and > dated April 2001. I'm not 100% sure about this, but I believe that if you CVSupped to the newest version, it might include the fix. I'd see what sos had to say about it though before doing anything. > > He doesn't appear to have MFCd to -STABLE. > > MFCd? Merged From CURRENT. Basically, at the point that it's Merged From CURRENT, it's been tested and validated enough to put into the STABLE branch. Your best bet, I believe, is going to be to talk with sos and see about getting the patch either MFC'd to the STABLE branch, or to get a copy of the patch yourself and apply it. --- Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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