Subject: Re: esp failures on a 1+
To: Erik E. Fair <fair@clock.org>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-sparc
Date: 05/22/1997 17:36:15
On Thu, 22 May 1997 13:31:51 -0700 
 "Erik E. Fair" (Time Keeper) <fair@clock.org> wrote:

 > There was one panic where SunOS didn't simply say "data fault" but said
 > "memory parity error in CHIP foo" (two parity errors, same chip - first one
 > killed a process, and the second one killed the system). I finally
 > concluded that my hardware was simply getting old and trying to tell me
 > that it was gonna die, so I replaced it (and that's another, in progress,
 > story! Can you say, "panic: pv_unlink0"?).

Oof, because NetBSD doesn't yet decode ECC/parity errors... Chuck Cranor
and I had a good start on it ... geez, almost a couple of years ago...
really ought to finish it one of these days...

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