Installed a DVD burner on RHL9, and now the machine reboots

[Ed Greshko]

On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 20:12, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:
> From: "Edward" <edward at tripled.iinet.net.au>
> <snip>
> > If its not the power supply, try replacing the EIDE cable next.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ed.
> 
> Okay, I'm going to go replace the cable and put the drive on hdd instead of
> hda.  What I don't get, however, is how either of these things could have
> the box rebooting spontaneously.  Isn't it more likely that it has to do
> with the /hda=ide-scsi option on the kernel line???

As nearly every Linux system I've worked on has had their CD or DV drive
defined as ide-scsi I doubt this could be the problem.

I will tell you that I had a tower system recently that would
spontaneously reboot during moderate to high activity.  The power supply
had 2 daisy chains of power for devices.  Both chains were equally
loaded with 1 unused connector each.  I moved things around and low and
behold when I unbalanced the load with chain A being more heavily loaded
the system would run just fine.

I left it like that for 2 months upon which time it started to reboot
again.

I got off my lazy a$$, bought a new PS, and it ran fine until I decided
that a 200MHz PII was a bit slow for what I needed.


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