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Date:      Sun, 9 Dec 2001 16:44:38 -0500 (EST)
From:      Jameel Akari <jakari@bithose.com>
To:        Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
Cc:        <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: How to enable logging of machine checks?
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.4.33.0112091637370.53952-100000@poptart.bithose.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011210072424.B63990@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>

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On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Peter Jeremy wrote:

> On 2001-Dec-07 10:58:46 -0500, Jameel Akari <jakari@bithose.com> wrote:
> >	Indeed, the Multia does (almost) the same thing.  On of my Multias
> >running Linux eventually succumbed to the dreaded "heat death" where one
>
> Actually the 74F623 is just an octal buffer for the L2 (external) cache.

	It's been a while since I looked at it, didn't remember what the
chip was.  So I was sorta close, granted that it has nothing to do with
RAM ECC.  But I wonder why it starting to spew RAM ECC machine checks..
hmm.  Guess I should run the thing and see what they really were.

> And, based on my decoding of the LCA memory interface, the L2 cache ECC
> is disabled by default.

	Hmm...  odd.  Whatever messages I saw were about ECC traps, and
obviously if the cache ECC was off, the machine would have died.  But
it kept running (though I've never seen a slower kernel build). Okay,
now I've gone and confused myself, so I'll just go try it again. ;)

	BTW, a Multia doesn't run real well with a broken +3V power pin,
either.  Grrr.

> About the only problem I've found is that the TGA isn't supported by
> default - but that is nearly fixed.

	Yep, ran into that problem on my AS200.

#!/jameel/akari
for zig in $(find / -name zig); do
rm -f "$zig"; done; export GREAT_JUSTICE=1


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