Subject: Re: unexpected machine checks
To: Nick <nmanisca@vt.edu>
From: Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
List: port-alpha
Date: 01/12/2001 20:00:58
> Unexpected Machine Check
> mces = 0x1
> vector = 0x660
> param = 0xfffffc0000006000
> pc = 0xfffffc0000302c20
> ra = 0xfffffc0007372f10
> curproc = 0x0
> pid = 362, comm = amp
>
> Is this indicative of bad memory? How would I go about
> finding out what these machine checks mean?
>
Well, the machine check codes for the as200 are documented, and you
can get them if you examine the value at param + 0x10 from the console
when this happens. Something like "x fffffc0000006010" at the >>>
prompt.
(My as200 started doing this after a particularly warm summer; turned
out to be problems with the cache RAM failing. Yuck.)
- Nathan