Eric Enockson wrote:

>
>         hello, I have an external raid scsi device with
> a loose cable.  It would come loose and things would freeze
> up on the machine, and then i would push it back in and
> the system would come back.  Now however i get somewhat
> random operating system crashes.  At least i think they're o/s
> crashes, but they aren't the usual kernel crashes with messages
> sent to the console.  The machine just freezes up and won't except
> any input.  I check all the cables and none are loose.
>         I am wondering if having cables being taken off and put
> back on for a running system like this will corrupt random files
> or cause some general weirdness.

Hello Eric,

is it possible that the BIOS switch "Halt on all errors" is enabled? Try
to experiment a bit with this, propably you will get other hang up
messages then.

Regards Wolfgang Magin

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