🚀 go-pugleaf

ric <btgsch@rmplc.co.uk> wrote:

> Peter Ceresole <peter@cara.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > I still use sys 7.5.2 on a 750/100 and in general it's beautifully stable.
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> Is there a particular reason you've stayed with 7.5.2 so long? I found
> just upgrading through to 7.5.5 made my 7500 hugely more pleasant
> to use, and didn't cost anything either.
> > 
> > I get maybe one type 11 error a week. Often less.
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> > Each time these type 11 errors have shown up, they have tended to persist
> > when I reboot. Type 11.
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> I've noticed the very same thing in the past on my 7200/90. It would
> seem to get in a temper every so often and I might spend a day
> performing restarts every 20 minutes or so. I don't see how memory
> can remain unreset across a restart, at least memory that matters, as
> that will have fresh, correct information written to as the system
> software reloads. All I could think was that I was using some
> particularly crash prone combination of apps which was causing the
> problems

ISTR, one of the "fixes" in 7.5.5 & 7.6 was that they're would
be fewer Type 11 errors on PPC boxes. The cynical have suggested
that's just because they are correctly identified as other specific
errors and not just reported as miscellaneous hardware exception 
type 11 errors...

rgds, Alan