Re: Installed a DVD burner on RHL9, and now the machine reboots

From: Benjamin J. Weiss (benjamin_at_weiss.name)
Date: 06/02/04

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Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 08:17:58 -0500

    From: "Ed Greshko" <Ed.Greshko@greshko.com>
    > On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 20:12, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:
    > > From: "Edward" <edward@tripled.iinet.net.au>
    > > <snip>
    > > > If its not the power supply, try replacing the EIDE cable next.
    > > >
    > > > Regards,
    > > > Ed.
    > >
    > > Okay, I'm going to go replace the cable and put the drive on hdd instead
    of
    > > hda. What I don't get, however, is how either of these things could
    have
    > > the box rebooting spontaneously. Isn't it more likely that it has to do
    > > with the /hda=ide-scsi option on the kernel line???
    >
    > As nearly every Linux system I've worked on has had their CD or DV drive
    > defined as ide-scsi I doubt this could be the problem.
    >
    > I will tell you that I had a tower system recently that would
    > spontaneously reboot during moderate to high activity. The power supply
    > had 2 daisy chains of power for devices. Both chains were equally
    > loaded with 1 unused connector each. I moved things around and low and
    > behold when I unbalanced the load with chain A being more heavily loaded
    > the system would run just fine.
    >
    > I left it like that for 2 months upon which time it started to reboot
    > again.
    >
    > I got off my lazy a$$, bought a new PS, and it ran fine until I decided
    > that a 200MHz PII was a bit slow for what I needed.

    I hear you, but this box has three redundant power supplies, all load
    balanced. IOW, I've had it running on 2 when I had to replace one, and I'm
    told that it'd run on only one if it had to.

    The lights are all green on the backs of the power supplies. I don't know
    how else to check if they're all working. The last time one failed, the
    green light went out.

    This motherboard only seems to hve the one ide channel, I can't find a
    connector for a second. I've attached the DVD to the slave connector on the
    primary channel (/dev/hdb) and I'm running mondoarchive again. I'll keep
    y'all posted.

    Ben 

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