> after having occasional (one each 150-30 days) server lockups with
> 2.0.34 and very often ones (one per day) with 2.0.35, I decided to stop it
> and do an extensive test trying to discover the problem.
>
> My hardware is a Intel RC440LX motherboard with two 300 MHz PII, 256 MB, one
> internal 7880U Adpatec controller and a EtherPro 100 mbps. I also bought an
> 3Com 509 and an Adaptec 2940U board for the tests.
>
> I tried all possible combinations of SCSI controllers and ethernets, all
> results were bad and consistent, so I bet is a problem of the aic7xxx
> driver.
Similar here except it's a dual PPRo200 (Intel Buckeye server),
same Ethernet, no 3Com. I did two things to try to lower my stress about
sudden freezes (the machine is rufus.w3.org, the one carrying the RPM
archive :-( ):
- grabbed my home NCR825 and moved some of the drives on it
- Bought a cheap harware watchdog (and wrote a small daemon handling it)
http://www.bb-elec.com/catalog/cards/pcwdt.html#Model ATRWDT
> BTW and question 2: Does someone how to disable by hardware the internal
> EEPRO and ADAPTEC in this Intel motherboard?
You have to boot the specific maintenance floppies which contain the
motherboard configuraton stuff, I guess.
Daniel
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