Re: Soekris net4501 - repetitive reboots

[Saad Kadhi <saad@docisland.org>]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 07:23:21PM +0100, Alexander Hall wrote:
> From: "Saad Kadhi" <saad@docisland.org>
> > hello peter,
> > 
> > On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 05:28:07PM -0800, Peter Hessler wrote:
> > > Random reboots in a soekris is likely to be a power problem.  Try 
> > > getting a different power supply (more volts/amps, within reason of 
> > > course ;-)
> > getting a different power supply might solve random reboots but not
> > (indirectly) triggered ones :-). 
> > 
> > it is very easy to reproduce and works each time. scp the 1GB+ file =>
> > reboot, no scp => no reboot at all.
> 
> I don't really see that this would rule out the "power supply theory",
> since I suppose it would be reasonable to suspect that the scp operation
> would make the machine consume more power, possibly causing it to
> malfunction if the power supply is insufficient.
agreed. it doesn't rule it out. nick@ also has the same arguments in a
private mail. thanks!

I will test another power supply as soon as I can and report back.

cheers.
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