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From: zeno@serv.net (Sean T. Lamont)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Spontaneous lockups
Date: 4 Oct 1996 16:10:30 -0700
Organization: ServNet Internet Services, Seattle, WA
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Message-ID: <5345h6$82k@itchy.serv.net>
NNTP-Posting-Host: itchy.serv.net

for about a week and a half, I've been trying to debug a problem on our
system causing spontaneous lockups. The problem started cropping up after
we added a couple of new disks and a second adaptec 2940 controller.

The only thing that happens to the system is that it STOPs. it's off
the net (ping fails), the console terminals all lock. I've ruled out
bad memory ; it could be a bad disk, though I'm not sure why I have 
no error messages. It could possibly be the second controller, but I had
it running successfully for many months in another system. I replaced all
the internal cabling, so it's not that either.

If anyone has any insight to this problem, please drop me a line.




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