🚀 go-pugleaf

Someone at our Law School had the same problem.  It turned out to be
bad memory causing file corruption over a number of hours.  Check the
memory!!

From what I understand...The way Novell caches things in memory, if the
memory is bad or is dysfunctional, watch out...

..Sal
Hansang Bae (hbae@Primenet.Com) wrote:
: lti@garnet.msen.com (Limno-Tech Inc.) writes:
: >We are running a 4.1 server (P90 /w 48M of ram) and are experienceing 
: >file corruption. We are not using file compression at the moment. 
: >Server 
: >P90 w/ 48M
: >2 3C509 Combo cards
: >1 Adaptec 2940 PCI SCSI-2 controller
: >1 seagate barracuda 4.0G scsi drive
: >1 micropolis scsi 1or2? drive

: You have a P90 server and yet are using an ISA NIC that uses PIO to
: tranfer information.  You may want into look into another NIC.

: It seems like you have 5.7 gigs worth of HD space.  Don' know how much
: is being used, but 48megs is a bit on the skimpy side, to put it mildly.
: of course since you are using 4.1, it alleviates the problem a bit but
: still...... more memory should be HIGH on the next wish list.

: >These files have gone bad sometimes in a matter of minutes after saving
: >or days. People can not open the files(in excel or word) On the console
: >the server does not say the the files are corrupt, but the programs will 
: >not open these files. 
: >Files are going bad on both disks, so I believe that the physical disks are
: >ok. 

: MAke sure that you ahve the latest adaptec drivers (ftp.adaptec.com).
: Also, make sure that your parity is enabled in the scsi setup.  

: Are you using any switches when loading your adaptec *.DSK nlms?


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