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

From: Ed Greshko (Ed.Greshko_at_greshko.com)
Date: 06/02/04

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Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 23:15:24 +0800

    On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 21:17, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:
    > 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.

    Oh, well that is slightly different than "big honkin power supply" as
    you described earlier. :-)

    >
    > 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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