William Ahern [william@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 03:49:07PM -0500, Jameel Akari wrote:
> > On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Paul Weissmann wrote:
> >
> > > rcooley [rcooley@xxxxxxxxxxx] wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 23:57:53 -0600
> > > > david l goodrich <dlg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > but i haven't had any luck tracking down a reason for this, or an
> > > > > answer from this list :\
> > > >
> > > > It seems similar to the problems I was having after lots of disk IO...
> > > > I was told it's a known-issue, and nothing else. Upgrading to 3.4 or
> > > > downgrading to 3.2 worked for me.
> > >
> > > I have also stability problems with a "AlphaStation 255/233, 232MHz".
> > > It ran quite smoothly on 3.2, after the upgrade I have a crash every
> > > 1-2 weeks, the last one was under heavy disk-I/O, the ones before not
> > > really.
> >
> > Best I can offer right now is a "me-too," on an Alphastation 200/233 with
> > 3.3-current. The machine is in a remote site and I'll be getting it
> > returned later this week.. it crashed a while ago and I haven't been able
> > to ascertain why. I'll see if I can break it again, and upgrade to 3.4
> > once my friend hauls it back home.
> >
> > I'm using the stock on-board NCR-whatever SCSI adaptor, is everyone else?
>
> "Symbios Logic 53c895" (on a PC164LX board).
"Symbios Logic 53c896" as a plugin card here.
> Though, many of my crashes were preceded w/ the PCI network card dying (not
> always).
Can't say if that happens here also, the system just disappears from
the network, don't know what precedes what.
> I'm still running 3.3 for the moment.
I think 3.4 still would be better. Or -current.
- paul
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