[Soekris] Soekris] net4801 reboots under load after harddisk change

[william estrada]

Richard,

   I would try another power supply. The 4801's are really solid boxes but
they do break from time to time.

   Do you have a PC that you leave connected to the console to try and
capture any messages? If it is a hardware problem then you will get any
messages, if it software then you should see something.

   Good luck.

-- 
William Estrada
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:33:22 +0100
> From: Richard Homonnai <richard.homonnai at rpgfiction.net>
> Subject: [Soekris] net4801 reboots under load after harddisk change
> To: soekris-tech at lists.soekris.com
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> Hello!
> 
> Yesterday my good old 7 yo IBM Travelstar died with 60 ATA errors and 1 
> unrecoverable sector. So I bought a new one, a Seagate Momentus 5400.2.
> 
> Since I have exchanged the harddisk, my box rebooted six times, only less than 
> a day passed. I could find out that it has to do something with harddisk 
> load. If I run a full backup to CF it succeeds. If I run it twices, the box 
> get's stuck and gets rebooted by the watchdog. Right now it did again.
> 
> First I thought it was a power issue, but the new disk draws 80 mA less than 
> the old one. So what exactly could it be?
> 
> Also, I experienced my box loses time when unplugged completely.
> 
> Please help me anyone, I have some quite important services running on it...
> 
> Greetings,
> Richard
>