Hi, On 13 Aug 2010, at 04:33, William D. Colburn (Schlake) wrote:
> A rehash of the problem: > > If my computer was plugged into the UPS and sitting on my metal desk > the drive controllers would fail and cause a panic almost immediately > when booted. If my computer was plugged into wall power and sitting > on a wooden table, the machine ran flawlessly. > > New information: > > Removing the UPS, but leaving the computer on the metal desk make the > panics happen a lot less, about every four to seven days. Sometimes > after a crash it couldn't boot because no hard drives could be found > at all, but that always went away with a few power cycles. Is your metal desk earthed? > One of my SATA cards has been with me since 2005. It was a rock solid > card on my old FreBSD install...as long as I didn't plug anything into > SATA port 2. I always had this feeling that something wasn't quite > right with port 2 and that I should avoid it. But I'm running FreeBSD > 8 now, and having strange problems. So I removed the card completely > and my system hasn't crashed since. Which still doesn't prove it was > the card. Removing the card could just have made it even more > intermittent. > > In summary: I hate hardware almost as much as I hate linux. :-) > -- > -- Schlake -- Bob Bishop r...@gid.co.uk _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
