On Friday 26 November 2004 03:16 pm, Mardoc Inc wrote: > I run a FreeBSD system at a remote site. It costs me over $4000 to > visit the site (northern arctic). > It, along with some other equipment, runs off 2 x 50 kW diesel > generators which are swapped by a mechanic once per week. The > swap-over takes less than a minute. The computer runs > off a UPS, which easily holds its charge during the swap.
All of the UPSes that I have used come with a warning that the battery will eventually need to be replaced. Are you sure the UPS is still good? > > But, unlike the other windows systems that run up there, the FreeBSD > system seems incredibly > prone to disk corruption. Often the system will not reboot, and hangs > while it asks for a file check. > I can't do that remotely - it has to be a person. > I frequently need to run fsck, and that does not always work. It is > hard to instruct a diesel mechanic on such matters from such a > distance. "fsck -y" > usually does not work either. > I had a power outage 4 days ago. When I got into the room, the 4 computers were still running. Since the power outage was supposed to last more than 3 hours, which was well beyond their capability, I shut them all down. They were running just fine when I shut them down and the all booted normally. I would tend to agree with the suggestion that your computer is failing. If fsck -y doesn't work, my HD has always developed bad sector(s) and the HD needs to be replaced. YMMV Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
