Re: Fairly regular crash with usb disk backup

From: S. Anthony Sequeira (tony_at_sequeira.com)
Date: 07/14/04

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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 18:59:02 +0100

    On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 15:07, Charles Ulrich wrote:
    > S. Anthony Sequeira said:
    [...]
    >
    > I believe I have a similar situation.
    >
    > My main server at home ran a number of different operating systems in the past
    > with no stability issues until I installed FreeBSD 4.10. After that, it would
    > reboot with no provocation or explanation approximately once a day. Uptime
    > varied between 5 minutes and 2 days.

    My symptoms differ inasmuch as the crash only occurs when I attempt to
    use the USB drive.

    > Thinking that I perhaps had a dodgy motherboard, I replaced it and all was
    > well for about 4 days. It rebooted again this morning with explanation. A
    > closer look at the logs revealed that my el-cheapo USB 2.0 card freaked out an
    > hour before reboot on two occasions, so if the machine reboots again I'm going
    > to try yanking out the USB card since I'm not really using it at the moment.

    The drive is connected to a USB 1.0 built-in port. No card yet, though
    I may look for one soon. Speed is not of the essence for my backups
    currently.

    > That may not be an option for you since you use USB to back your system up,
    > but maybe we can get a developer to help us find a fix or workaround.

    Yes, there is obviously a problem, maybe not the same problem, but
    similar. I would like to assist the developers to track it down, if
    they are interested.

    > Charles Ulrich 

    -- 
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads
lead down.
-- Stanislaw Lem, "The Cyberiad"
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