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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: High SCSI activity causes reboots under 2.1-STABLE
Date: 15 Mar 1996 22:15:19 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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mark@plato.ucsalf.ac.uk (Mark Powell) writes:

>   I've had reboots caused by high disk activity on with a AHA2940.

Sounds like motherboard, cache, or RAM problems.

I'm using two 2940's in a machine at work, without problems.  The
machine has been serving several high-load SCSI tasks in the past,
but i've never seen your problem.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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