> I am having endless trouble with a new news server.  All seemed to work
> fine while I was testing it, but as soon as I unleashed some live load, it
> started panicing every few hours.  Here are the most recent few panic
> messages:
>
> [ ... ]
>
> Disks and SCSI controllers: two Adaptec 2940 controllers;
>     one controller connected to three disks and one connected to two disks;
>     using ccd to stripe the /var/spool/news partition across two of the 
>     disks (one on each controller).

I have heard (from a source at BSDI) that the adaptec docs that
describe the chip(s?) in the 2940 are incorrect in a way that can
cause data loss.  They didn't know what the exact problem was,
unfortunately.

I dunno if the NetBSD driver works around it...



chris