A third system failed exactly as the other two, completely different hardware. Simply pressing the CD eject button on external drive caused pause, memory corruption, then esp0: failures which subsequently wiped the internal boot disks. --------------- Hello, <upfront apologies, I have not seen these symptoms documented anywhere...> I have two Sun Ultra1 Creators (200MHZ) that install RH6.2 and run flawlessly for about 20 minutes, then for no apparent reason they loop with an ESP0: errors. The worst part is the boot/root disk is wiped out in the process. I have tried the shipping 2.2.14-5 and the newest patched RH Sparc Kernel (2.2.16, methinks). I have noticed that it may be aggravated when Disk, or maybe SCSI or external CDROM activities occur, such as automounting. The weirdness is that we actually have one machine that seems to be running, yet it does not have an external device on it. I wanted to grab a newer kernel to compile, but not sure yet where to get sparc64-linux-gcc that Makefile wants... Thanks for the read! In a tight loop; esp0: forcing async for target 0 esp0: yieee, bytes_sent <0 esp0: csz=0 fifiocount=0 ecount=64480 esp0: use_sq=1 ptr=0000000000000000 this_residual=0 -- Fred Farleigh Systems and Network Engineering Argonne National Laboratory 630.252.6642 [EMAIL PROTECTED] The #1 rule in security is "You can't attack what you can't access" - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of the message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
