From: "Ed Greshko" <Ed.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> > On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 20:12, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: > > From: "Edward" <edward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > <snip> > > > If its not the power supply, try replacing the EIDE cable next. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Ed. > > > > Okay, I'm going to go replace the cable and put the drive on hdd instead of > > hda. What I don't get, however, is how either of these things could have > > the box rebooting spontaneously. Isn't it more likely that it has to do > > with the /hda=ide-scsi option on the kernel line??? > > As nearly every Linux system I've worked on has had their CD or DV drive > defined as ide-scsi I doubt this could be the problem. > > I will tell you that I had a tower system recently that would > spontaneously reboot during moderate to high activity. The power supply > had 2 daisy chains of power for devices. Both chains were equally > loaded with 1 unused connector each. I moved things around and low and > behold when I unbalanced the load with chain A being more heavily loaded > the system would run just fine. > > I left it like that for 2 months upon which time it started to reboot > again. > > I got off my lazy a$$, bought a new PS, and it ran fine until I decided > that a 200MHz PII was a bit slow for what I needed. I hear you, but this box has three redundant power supplies, all load balanced. IOW, I've had it running on 2 when I had to replace one, and I'm told that it'd run on only one if it had to. The lights are all green on the backs of the power supplies. I don't know how else to check if they're all working. The last time one failed, the green light went out. This motherboard only seems to hve the one ide channel, I can't find a connector for a second. I've attached the DVD to the slave connector on the primary channel (/dev/hdb) and I'm running mondoarchive again. I'll keep y'all posted. Ben -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
