Dear Adam (et al.), On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 11:41:49 -0700, Adam Lins wrote:
> I had a previously-reliable RH7.2 server which (suddenly! > inexplicably!) kept failing during Amanda dumps. In the end, it > turned out to be the SCSI card--replacing the cheaper SymBIOS card > (sym53c8xx-based, which I see you have one of) with a slightly-more > expensive Adaptec card worked wonders. What kind of failures -- did you get varying, ugly crashing behavior like our system's? > Since you're using IDE, have you tried replacing the HDD driver > card, or are you using on-board IDE? We are using both on-board (VIA Apollo KX133) and a Promise ATA-100 card; because of the software RAID design, we really have to have an IDE controller for each drive (although ide0 is shared between a hard drive and the infrequently-used DVD-ROM). > -Adam > > > -----Original Message----- > > <snip> Truly, Jonathan -- / Jonathan R. Johnson | "Every word of God is flawless." \ | Minnetonka Software, Inc. | -- Proverbs 30:5 | \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | My own words only speak for me. /