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Article #7005Selftest-#megs=## EEPROM attribute bug???
From: Kris Olander
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1991 17:28
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1991 17:28
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We keep getting some kernel panics on one of our Sparcstation1s running 4.0.3 with some reference to memory errors. When I look at the EEPROM parameters, I see 'selftest-#megs=1'. We have 16 meg of RAM in all our Sparc1s so I set this EEPROM parameter to 16 and run the monitor level memory test. The test always fails with a 'memory alignment error'. It turns out, that any other valid RAM value except 'selftest-#megs=1' fails with the same error message. I tested this on our other Sun4/80s and came up with the same results. Can some kind soul explain what's going on here? Does the Sun4/80 memory test only test 1 meg of RAM regardless of how much memory is installed? Is there a better way to test for bad RAM? Kris Olander --------------kris.olander@dartmouth.edu----------------
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!brtph3!brchh104!brchs1!bnr.ca!rice.edu!sun-spots-request From: kriso@lombard.dartmouth.edu (Kris Olander) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Selftest-#megs=## EEPROM attribute bug??? Keywords: Miscellaneous Message-ID: <1953@brchh104.bnr.ca> Date: 18 Mar 91 17:28:00 GMT Sender: news@brchh104.bnr.ca Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 17 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Original-Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1991 14:12:55 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 57, message 10 X-Note: Submissions: sun-spots@rice.edu, Admin: sun-spots-request@rice.edu