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From: bolsen@seanet.com (Bruce Olsen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and system crashes...
Date: 11 Nov 1995 14:59:26 GMT
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In article <480fqi$gkr@news1.wolfe.net>, scottm@wolfe.net (Scott McDermott) writes:
|> I'm trolling for ideas on what the problem with this might be.  I have a
|> P90 system with 48M, sd0 is a 1 gig Conner, and sd1 is a 4 gig barricuda. 
|> This system is running the 1026-SNAP.  It is being used as a news server,
|> but it keeps crashing. :( The system will stay up for anywhere from 2 to
|> 24 hours, but it will then crash.  What happens is the hard disks stop
|> responding, thus requiring a power cycle.  If I only reset, the barricuda
|> seems to disappear!  Power cycleing comes up fine.  This happens with both
|> the Adaptec 2940 and 1542.  Anyone have any ideas?  Maybe I should ditch 
|> the 4 gig and get a couple of 2 gigs?
|> 
Do you have one of the older barricudas? I'd zero in on it in your efforts.
FWIW, Netware 4.1 (no flames please, I didn't do it) seems to have some
problems staying up with older barracudas.