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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!hubcap!cballen
- From: cballen@hubcap.clemson.edu (charles allen)
- Subject: Re: Cache parity errors on DS5000/200
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.193811.21441@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Organization: Clemson University
- References: <52163@dime.cs.umass.edu> <2A93BC8F.906@orion.oac.uci.edu>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 19:38:11 GMT
- Lines: 29
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- fredv@abba.acs.uci.edu (Fred Velijanian) writes:
-
- >In article <52163@dime.cs.umass.edu> valerie@cs.umass.edu (Valerie Caro) writes:
- >>
- >> In the past few months we have started getting alot of
- >> Cache parity errors on several of out DECstation 5000/200's.
- >> This only started happening after these machines were updated
- >> to Ultrix 4.2a, but I am not sure if that is related. Can
- >> anyone tell me what causes these errors? Is this necessarily
- >> a hardware problem?
- >>
- >> Thanks,
- >> Valerie Caro
- >>
- >> valerie@cs.umass.edu
- >>
- >>
-
- >Yes, we get it on lots of 4.2A systems. The uerf is full of them. I've been
- >told (by a field service person) that those messages can be ignored
- >since they were turned on for debugging during development and never
- >turned off.
-
- >Fred Velijanian
- >University of California, Irvine
- >fredv@uci.edu
-
- So, does a REAL parity error message look different than these "fake"
- ones?
-