Subject: Re: Memory?
To: Dr. John Refling <refling@comet.lbl.gov>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@telstra.com.au>
List: port-pmax
Date: 04/18/1998 15:36:17
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998 21:23:31 -0700  "Dr. John Refling" wrote:

> >Simon sez:
> >
> >Of the machines that run NetBSD, only the 5000/2xx series machines have
> >error correction.  The others (the 2100, 3100, 5000/xx and 5000/1xx)
> >only have parity.  On the 5000/2xx series machines, error correction
> >does "work" - it's done in hardware.  The kernel prints a message on the
> >console and continues on.  (Yes, I've got a machine that happily prints
> >these all the time, and keeps on chugging.)
> 
> What O/S are you running that prints out this message?

NetBSD.  Ultrix logs these events through the elcsd daemon, and can be
read by the uerf program.  NetBSD just does a kernel printf(), which
can get captured by syslog.  For example:

	Nov  2 14:00:01 vlad /netbsd: CPU memory read ECC error at 0x02b2a254   ECC 0x8ca98c00

Simon.