on 12/15/99 11:55 PM, Richard Michael at rmichael@oci.utoronto.ca wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Thanks to those for earlier comments regarding my setup..
> 
> (It's 5/240 w/ 196 Mb RAM booting off a SCSI disk w/ dd'd blocks
> from diskimage.tar.gz (if memory serves) and a TC enet card.)
> 
> Anyway, I removed the TC card and the kernel gets _much_ farther,
> but I get a memory error now.  I'll remove some of the mem in the
> morning when I get to the office (right now I'm using ssh and tip
> from home) .. but I'm wondering if someone can decode some this
> output for me:
> 
> (here's the boot sequence, followed by the full test output I did -
> when I suspect mem probs)
> 
> Does this suggest a prob w/ the 5th mem board? BTW - there are 6x32Mb
> modules in the box.
> 
> Thanks!
> --
>>> boot 3/rz2/netbsd
>>> NetBSD/pmax Secondary Boot, Revision 1.0
>>> (root@vlad, Fri Jul 16 12:48:23 EST 1999)
> Boot: 3/rz2/netbsd
> 989544+2142608+143892 [89+50384+39543]=0x336ef4
> Starting at 0x80030000
> 
> Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999
> The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
> Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
> The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
> 
> NetBSD 1.4.1 (RAMDISK) #15: Sat Jul 17 02:18:16 EST 1999
> root@vlad:/usr/src/sys/arch/pmax/compile/RAMDISK
> DECstation 5000/240 (3MAXPLUS)
> real mem  = 201326592
> avail mem = 172277760
> using 4915 buffers containing 20131840 bytes of memory
> mainbus0 (root)
> cpu0 at mainbus0: cpu0: MIPS R3000 CPU Rev. 3.0 with MIPS R3010 FPC Rev. 4.0
> cpu0: 64kb Instruction, 64kb Data, direct mapped cache
> tc0 at mainbus0: 25 MHz clock
> ioasic0 at tc0 slot 3 offset 0x0
> le0 at ioasic0 offset 0xc0000: address 08:00:2b:2a:7c:46
> le0: 32 receive buffers, 8 transmit buffers
> scc0 at ioasic0 offset 0x100000
> scc1 at ioasic0 offset 0x180000: console
> mcclock0 at ioasic0 offset 0x200000: mc146818 or compatible
> asc0 at ioasic0 offset 0x300000: target 7
> Beginning old-style SCSI device autoconfiguration
> CPU memory write ECC error at 0x0bfff61c
> ECC 0xcc99ba2e
> 
> panic: panic("Mem error interrupt");
> 
> halted.
> 
>>> test
> ?TFL:  3/mem (1: board 5, MBE= 4194304, SBE= 0) [KN03-AA]
> 3/misc/kbd       
> ?STF (4: Ln#0 Kbd self test)
> 
> 3/misc/mouse     
> ?STF (4: Ln#1 Pntr self test)
> 
> ?TFL:  3/ni/ext-lb (3:(xmt [00000006, 00000040] cable)) [KN03-AA]

  This has to do with your Ethernet connection, no link or not terminated
maybe?

> ?TFL:  3/mem (1: board 5, MBE= 4194304, SBE= 0) [KN03-AA]

    Almost surely a bad ram board #5 (make sure you go by the number on the
motherboard, as the boards start at #0, not #1) Try reseating it a few times
and see if that helps.

> ?STF (4: Ln#0 Kbd self test)
> ?STF (4: Ln#1 Pntr self test)

    No keyboard or mouse detected, or if they are connected, bad cable
maybe? Are you using an LK201 or LK401 with a VSXXX-GA mouse?

> ?TFL:  3/ni/ext-lb (3:(xmt [00000006, 00000040] cable)) [KN03-AA]

Again, something with Ethernet, just repeating the test results

>>> 

I'm getting the same errors on my 5000/240 whenever I try and do a make
depend. I've run the PROM full self test about 8 times and have not found
any bad RAM chips. I have 416MB of RAM too, so this takes a very long time.
I'm trying to get to the bottom of things now.


    Chris
-- 
    "I use to be indecisive, now I'm not so sure..."