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"Vesna Petrovic" <vesna.petrovic@×××××.com> posted |
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60bedadc0610311046q23d77c5fu671c7330a2f09a14@××××××××××.com, excerpted |
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below, on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:46:29 -0500: |
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> The system has 2 AMD Opeteron Processors 252, 5 disks - 1IDE Maxtor |
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> 6B200R0 and 4 SCSI Maxtor 6L300S0, and probably irrelevant ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM |
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> DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme |
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> BCM5703X Gigabit Ethernet (rev 02), RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. |
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> SiI 3114 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02), FireWire (IEEE |
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> 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link), |
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> VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AP [Radeon 9600] |
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> 05:00.1, Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AP [Radeon 9600] |
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> (Secondary). |
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> Kernel version is 2.6.17 built using gentoo-sources. |
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I have but a few possibilities to suggest, but I can say I've been using a |
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similar system since late 2003, upgrading it over time, and know it works. |
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FWIW, Tyan s2885 mobo here, dual Opteron 242s, four-way SATA RAID on SiI |
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3114 SATA controller, 8 gig memory, Firewire, Radeon 9200 (so the ATI r200 |
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series not the r300 series you have, mine is AGP), a DVDRW, CDRW, and older |
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PATA hard drive on PATA, etc. |
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Possibilities: |
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I had bum memory for awhile. Twas a mess, until I got a BIOS upgrade that |
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allowed me to declock it a notch (to pc3000 level from the pc3200 it was |
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rated). A memory upgrade cured that. |
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The usual possible hardware suspects including the power supply train |
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(from the one in the computer itself, to what's coming in on the line, to |
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the UPS if any), and possibly overclocked CPUs. With all those hard |
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drives, it's possible you are simply underpowered. I think I'm running a |
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550 watt rated Vantec that's rated to 650-ish spike. |
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At one point there was an issue with the firewire driver and x86_64 SMP. |
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Since I'm not using Firewire for anything here, IIRC I disabled it in BIOS |
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as well as the kernel driver for it. I've not followed up but I'd /guess/ |
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the problem is fixed by now. Still, it's worth trying that, and disabling |
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any other stuff (like USB possibly in a server environment, which it seems |
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you are in) you don't actually use. |
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Those are all shots in the dark, but this is mainly to say that what I |
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have here seems to work very well, at least since I fixed the memory |
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issue, which was simply generic memory not worth its rating and an |
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inability at the time to declock it in BIOS. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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