Debugging a dump - need alternative?

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 05:56:54AM -1000, Robert Marella wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 10:33:44 -0500
> Vivek Khera <vivek at khera.org> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Nov 10, 2006, at 10:19 AM, Robert Marella wrote:
> > 
> > > Thank you for your response. It seems unlikely that it is the power
> > > supply because I can buildworld on the same machine with an i386
> > > install. The only difference is the i386 is on a SATA drive while
> > > the AMD64 is on an IDE drive.
> > 
> > The funny thing about hardware failure is that the symptoms often  
> > make no sense.
> > 
> > Don't rule it out until you test the equipment.
> > 
> I am planning to.
> 
We were also having random crashes (mostly ATA related) on a number
of AMD64 boxes here, until it was identified as insufficient powering.
So yes, don't rule it out yet.  :-)


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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