[srfeo]

I have recently bought a J7F4K Jetway fanless VIA Eden 1.2GHz board and have been experiencing constant hardware lockups, especially when using the USB port to connect to external hard drive enclosures...

My server is running Linux (Debian Etch - testing) and I'm using it right now as a file server.

Since the case that I'm using (Mini-box M300) is too small for a large drive, I am booting off of CF flash and then using an eSATA enclosure connected to the motherboard or a USB enclosure to store the data.

I have had the computer lock up (no I/O to monitor, no keyboard access) under the following circumstances:

1) Using rsync to backup between the eSATA to external USB
2) SCP copying from the eSATA/USB drives from another computer over the network
3) Doing general intensive disk activity

When I am doing an rsync backup over the Internet, at about 384kbps, the system seems quite stable. It seems to only lock with higher transfer rates.

I am still trying to investigate further by setting up a console over serial so I can try to find out what could be causing the crashes...

Has anyone seen such problems?