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!

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