Re: Cache parity errors on DS5000/200

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From: charles allen
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 19:38

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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?

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Subject: Re: Cache parity errors on DS5000/200
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