Bill Perry: >> It appears that my scsi card went bad during the hardware upgrade. >> >> Arrrrrg! Tom Horsley: > I'm convinced that hardware just sits around waiting for > a software upgrade so it can fail at the most confusing > possible time :-). It's not too surprising, in some cases... Often, a computer spends most of its time idling along, but an install causes it to do a moderately heavy workload for a prolonged period, and that can show up cooling faults, or be the straw that broke the camel's back in components that were on the verge of failing. And then there's computers that spend a year or two sitting on the shelf, then the user opens them up and rummages around inside. Subjecting it to physical stress (twisting the case, so cards walk out of the motherboard, or hairline fractures occur), and to static shocks. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
