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Date:      Tue, 17 Sep 1996 20:17:39 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi Asami)
Cc:        rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RAM parity error 
Message-ID:  <199609180317.UAA11098@root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 17 Sep 1996 19:22:06 PDT." <199609180222.TAA09684@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> 

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> * 							 I would highly
> * encorage you to try a swapout with some ``real parity'' memory and
> * more than likely watch your problem go away...
>
>I'd never buy a "logic parity" board myself, but unfortunately, these
>machines are donated to our project (they aren't even supposed to be
>running FreeBSD!) so I can't change anything in them. :(
>
>So, do you think this is a memory problem?  Is there some other test I
>can run, other than stressing the SCSI system?  (It doesn't crash when
>I run the "fast bcopy" benchmark, and I think that thing stresses the
>memory system a lot....)

   Not likely. All of the memory in wcarchive is "true" parity. The parity
errors always occur during the *same* instruction.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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