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Date:      Tue, 28 Mar 1995 14:23:41 +0100
From:      Gary Palmer <gary@palmer.demon.co.uk>
To:        bmk@dtr.com
Cc:        Thomas Krebs <krebs@faps.uni-erlangen.de>, questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: RAM parity error?? 
Message-ID:  <281.796397021@palmer.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 28 Mar 1995 03:25:14 -0800." <199503281125.DAA00743@dtr.com> 

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In message <199503281125.DAA00743@dtr.com>, bmk@dtr.com writes:
>I would guess that message comes from your BIOS, and not from FreeBSD -
>but I could be mistaken.  I would think that if FreeBSD detected an
>error of this sort, it'd force a panic.

The BIOS should be dead when FreeBSD is running. The parity errors come
from /sys/i386/isa/isa.c. Look for `parity'.

As to the cause - it varies from machine to machine I'm afraid :-(

Gary



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