Jason~
Just one bit of info I heard....
I was told by Rick Wilson of Protel (training instructor) that there are
known issues with ATI cards as well as with the wheel mouse.
Another problem i encountered was when there was an "old school" macro
keyboard attached to my design machine...
guess I'll learn how to write macros in Protel. :)
While none of these have proven to crash my system, yet you may want to keep
them in the back of your mind.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Morgan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 3:56 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Cc: Edwin Russell
Subject: [PEDA] Database Corruption - UPDATE
All,
Some time ago, I reported having problems with database corruption on a
network of Protel workstations using SP6 and various operating
systems/machine configurations.
We still don't know the exact cause of the problem, but took the following
steps to try and
resolve it. One or more (or a combination) of those steps seem to have
succeeded, in that
we have not had a corruption for over one week.
The steps were:
Ban the lowest powered (128Mb/ATI graphics) machine from the live network
database.
Buy a 1GHz/1Gb P4 CAD workstation for the PCB guy, he was using a 600MHz P3
with 728Mb on W2000.
Take 10+ backups of the database per day on a 30 deep history.
Ban multiple users of the same document - even for read only.
Remove 'Compress on close' from all workstations.
Ban machines with less than 512Mb from the live database.
The Only remaining Windows 98 machine still crashes occasionally, with 'out
of resources',
But we have had no more corruptions.
Recently we've removed some of the background programs from the W98 machine,
this seems
to have helped (increasing the available resources by 20%).
>From this we have made the following conclusions:
The Unix network on which the databases live is not the cause of the
problem.
Multi user access of the database seems not to be the cause.
The cause was/is probably available resources and available RAM EVEN on
W2000.
The cause may have been ATI graphics cards, but is unlikely as this machine
was
not in use when one of the crashes occurred.
Jason.
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