[ale] Mysterious hang

[Jonathan Rickman]

> I had a similar issue thatIi mitigated by installing a different network
> card. I seem to recall the net chip was in close proximity to the perc
> controller power access. When the system was loaded up on a big network
> transfer that was doing heavy disk access, the lockup was frequent, but
> a certainty. By disabling the onboard NIC and using a pci slot NIC the
> problem went away. I suspect it was a power distribution issue but did
> not chase it down.

Yep. That's about the size of it. Unfortunately, we had/have no
available slots to use.

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Jonathan