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From: gpalmer@webspan.net (Gary Palmer)
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Subject: Re: INN 1.5.1 w/MMAP OK on FreeBSD-2.2?
Date: 3 Apr 1997 00:30:38 GMT
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In article <5hsdt5$d6k$2@news.fred.net>,
daleg@fred.net (Dale Ghent) writes:
> Gary Palmer (gpalmer@webspan.net) said:
> Your drives die also? I was running 2.1.5-Rel and then upgraded this past
> week to 2.2.1. In both releases, Drives would die like crazy, ranging fron
> SCSI buss errors that reboot the system or media errrors on the drives
> themselves. I have checked and double checked termination, et all... Is
> this FreeBSD or just bad luck with drives?
Check your ventilation. It took a bit of playing to get the cooling
right for these drives. Used to have at least one die a month (out of
5). Now the machine has been up for well over 50 days without problems
of any sort.
> Oh, BTW, mmap() in 2.2.1 is _excellent_
Yep. John Dyson is a minor god :)
Gary