I was suggesting to someone that they enable crash dumps on their server but they have everything on an IDE raid partition. -------------------- Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address = 0xbed557c5 fault code = supervisor read, page not present instruction pointer = 0x8:0xc027c38d stack pointer = 0x10:0xdea01ecc frame pointer = 0x10:0xdea01ef4 code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0 current process = 5 (syncer) interrupt mask = none trap number = 12 panic: page fault syncing disks... 8 done Uptime: 1d0h9m53s dumping to dev #ar/0x20001, offset 1279168 dump failed, reason: device doesn't support a dump routine Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort --------------------------- The error message seems to imply crash dumps are not supported on the ar device? Apart from installing a spare drive, I guess there are no other option ? ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike