> From: Edward Ned Harvey [mailto:sh...@nedharvey.com] > > I have a Dell R710 which has been flaky for some time. It crashes about once > per week. I have literally replaced every piece of hardware in it, and > reinstalled Sol 10u9 fresh and clean.
It has been over 3 weeks now, with no crashes, and me doing everything I can to get it to crash again. So I'm going to call this one resolved... Tentatively acknowledging the remote possibility that the problem could still come back. All I did was disable the built-in Broadcom network cards, and buy an add-on Intel network card (EXPI9400PT). It is worth noting, that the built-in bcom card cannot be completely disabled if you want to use ipmi... It's disabled for OS only, but the iDRAC ipmi traffic still goes across the bcom interface. So now I have two network cables running to the machine, one of which is only used for ipmi. No big deal. I had ports to spare on my switch, and the system is stable. It's the fault of the Broadcom card. Rumor has it (from dell support technician) that the bcom cards have been problematic in other OSes too... It's not isolated to solaris. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
