From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 6 14:32:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA01435 for current-outgoing; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:32:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA01377 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:31:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA24995; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 09:01:23 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id JAA20661; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 09:01:17 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980107090116.47086@lemis.com> Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 09:01:16 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: dk+@ua.net Cc: Satoshi Asami , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, dk@farm.org Subject: Re: RAM parity error References: <199801060852.AAA04597@dog.farm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <199801060852.AAA04597@dog.farm.org>; from Dmitry Kohmanyuk on Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 12:52:04AM -0800 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 12:52:04AM -0800, Dmitry Kohmanyuk wrote: > In article <199712310100.RAA03280@vader.cs.berkeley.edu> you wrote: >> I have been seeing a "RAM parity error" in one of our machines lately. >> I have swapped machines and it still happens on the machine in the >> same position. The only things that are common in the old and new >> machines are the external SCSI disk array. It has happened on 3 PCs. > >> Is it possible that data on a non-system filesystem would cause such >> an error? I always thought the parity error panic is caused by the >> chipset asserting a signal line dedicated for the NMI.... > >> Here's one of the dumps: > > [...] >> #14 0xf0151f62 in spec_strategy () >> #15 0xf0151689 in spec_vnoperate () >> #16 0xf01aee01 in ufs_vnoperatespec () >> #17 0xf0114606 in ccdstart () >> #18 0xf0114560 in ccdstrategy () >> #19 0xf0151f62 in spec_strategy () > [...] > > note the ccd drives... It's a pity you truncated this. What does the whole trace look like? Greg