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On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, RJ45 wrote:

>
> I had sporadic troubles of ECC correctable errors reported by solaris 9
> but this did not compromise the system before.
> This happened once every 4 or 5 month reported by solaris.
> Shouldn't the ECC error being corrected without compromising the system
> stability also in FreeBSD ?

Should, but this could have been a double-bit ecc error, finally, which
will watchdog.

Try replacing your RAM.

>
> thanks
>
> Rick
>
>
> On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Doug White wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, RJ45 wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I have a ultra60 with FreeBSD 5.2
> > >
> > > suddently the machien stop working and on the OBP prompt I ahd this:
> > >
> > > Watchdog Reset
> > > Externally Initiated Reset
> > >
> > > I did a POST test and all the hardware looks to be flawless.
> > >
> > > anyone experienced this problem before on dual CPU ultra 60?
> >
> > Someone got one of these a few weeks ago; it turned out to be bad memory.
> >
> > The Sun docs say that thse are caused by hardware problems.
> >
> > --
> > Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
> > dwhite@gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org
> >
>

-- 
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