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

[Benjamin J. Weiss]

From: "Ed Greshko" <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com>
> > I hear you, but this box has three redundant power supplies, all load
> > balanced.  IOW, I've had it running on 2 when I had to replace one, and
I'm
> > told that it'd run on only one if it had to.
>
> Oh, well that is slightly different than "big honkin power supply" as
> you described earlier.  :-)
>

True, I guess I could have been more specific.  Sorry. :)

> > The lights are all green on the backs of the power supplies.  I don't
know
> > how else to check if they're all working.  The last time one failed, the
> > green light went out.
> >
> > This motherboard only seems to hve the one ide channel, I can't find a
> > connector for a second.  I've attached the DVD to the slave connector on
the
> > primary channel (/dev/hdb) and I'm running mondoarchive again.  I'll
keep
> > y'all posted.

Well, moving the dvd burner to the slave on the primary channel (/dev/hdb)
seems to have done the trick.  I've been able to run two backups now to
dvd+rw media.  I don't understand why hda=ide-scsi would crash the system
when hdb=ide-scsi works fine.

Ben