On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Chris Wells wrote:
> OpenSolaris has panicked the most - but I'm not being critical of it - > perhaps the other OSes just can't drive the hardware to the limit. "The most" - meaning the others had problems, too. Solaris will panic when things go wrong - some other platforms will just whine. If your other platforms choked as well, it means you have a hardware problem lurking in there. > 8GB (DDR2-800MHz 2GB * 4 memory, non ECC) No-name memory? Try pulling all but one DIMM and re-test. If that fails, cycle other DIMMs through. If they all fail, borrow one. If it comes to the crunch I can pull some 2GB Kingstons from my yum-cha box. > 2 * Seagate ST75000333 SATA2 (32MB cache) Check your SATA cables, obviously. Just in case. > No, I'm using the standard CAS timings for the BIOS. No overclocking. Underclock everything. Of course, next time, go SPARC! -- Andre van Eyssen. mail: andre at purplecow.org jabber: andre at interact.purplecow.org purplecow.org: UNIX for the masses http://www2.purplecow.org purplecow.org: PCOWpix http://pix.purplecow.org
