[SunHELP] Can u tell me whether the hardware is faulty ??

[Magnus Abrante]

Actually a faster way to deal with it is to install the latest kernel
patch 106541-14, its better in dealing with this kind of errors.

	//Magnus Abrante
/* This is my opinion and not the one of my empolyer */

> Saw a lot of this at my last job.  CPU0 had an Ecache error.  Sun recommends
> if this was the first
> occurrence, leave the CPU in.  If you get a second occurrence, replace the
> CPU.  This was really not
> the answer we wanted to hear from Sun, as this will cause your server to be
> down three times to
> replace the CPU, initial CPU panic, second CPU panic and CPU replacement.
>  
> In some instances the second CPU panic never occurs.
>  
> In answer to your question, It is possibly a bad CPU.  Log a call with Sun,
> send them the core dump,
> and explorer output.
>  
> Dennis L. Lund
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gautam Bhola [mailto:gautambhola at hotmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 7:21 PM
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [SunHELP] Can u tell me whether the hardware is faulty ??
> 
> 
> Hi ..
> I have 220R with 2*450Mhz processors and 1Gb of Memeory..OS is Solaris-7
> Yesterday the system crashed with a core dump and i got the following
> messages
> logged in /var/adm/messages:::
>  
> unix: panic[cpu0]/thread=300002216a0:
> 
> CPU0 Ecache Writeback Data Parity Error: AFSR 0x00000000.00800004 AFAR
> 0x000001fe.01800800
>  
> Savecore: reboot after panic: CPU0 Ecache Writeback Data Parity Error: AFSR
> 0x00000000.00800004 AFAR 0x000001fe.01800800
>  
> Could you possibly tell me what went wrong ???
> Thanks
> GautamBhola   
> 
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