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dsmith@mindspring.com (Don Smith) wrote:

>>> 
>>> Help??

>Question that bothers me is, if it is a thermal problem, why doesn't
>it fail during the backup itself, why wait until the next morning when
>users are coming on line?

Don.... I have simlar hardware, generic P133 PCI, 96mb ram Adaptec
2940  with mirrored 9gb Micropolis drives, and Backup Exec 7.01b.  I
would experience "random" lockups and abends between midnight and 7am.
Thw server would abend sometime between nest day and 25 days after a
restart. Segate (arcada) was great help.. the debugs from BAXTER.NLM
proved Backup Exec was not the problem and pointed me to DS.NLM.
Working with Novell, I verified every patch and update... note that
files in the IT updates may change, but the patch kit name remains the
same! Novell provided a beta clib that didnt seem to help... and a
pre-release of 410PT5.  The server has been up for a week... and still
counting.
Other updates included adaptec's drivers, I believe they were dated
during May....  BackupExec is now at ver 7.11. BackupExec also
installed a new SMDR.NLM (newer than the one provided in the most
recient Novell patch)...  Clib... make sure it it not rev g.  Rev h is
better, but Novell said it still had problems.. and I was willing to
risk a beta clib.