On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 21:17, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:
> 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.
Oh, well that is slightly different than "big honkin power supply" as
you described earlier. :-)
>
> 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
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