I had also thought this a few months back pre-1.08. I noticed customers who had many things plugged into 1 outlet would have the issues, and I also thought it was a brown-out situation or power sag like you mentioned. I don't recall what sB thought of the problem, but since then, I haven't experienced any of that problem after switching everyone to 1.08.
Sevak
On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 22:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Howdy, Well, I *think* that 1.08 has reduced the number of crashes we've had in the field with customer prem equipment, but it does still occur for some customers. I've noticed that those customers who *never* have this type of problem, are those who use UPS's, and we always hook up to it if one is present and available. I was reading a recent issue of embedded systems programming recently and it was discussing power-on-reset circuits. Not your avarage run of the mill subject, but the gist is that when most cpu type devices power on, they need a certain hold time to ensure that everything stabilizes before the processor attempts to start using the bus and otherwise functioning. Failure to observe these hold times will result in an apparently crashed system if it tries to come up while the system isn't ready. So I'm wondering if some of the lockups I've observed are the result of an airbridge reset - induced perhaps by a power sag or other condition - that brings the hardware down, but fails to also bring the cpu all the way down and back to it's initialization state. Just my $0.02. Mike-
