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From: klb@philabs.Philips.Com (Ken Bourque)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: mcr0: errors
Message-ID: <3029@briar.Philips.Com>
Date: Mon, 7-Dec-87 10:09:23 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  7 10:09:23 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 13-Dec-87 06:18:20 EST
References: <192@hal.UUCP> <9609@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: klb@briar.philips.com.UUCP (Ken Bourque)
Organization: Philips Laboratories, Briarcliff Manor, NY
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Keywords: syslog mcr0 ecc errors
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In article <9609@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>
>>Nov 28 19:39:55 hal vmunix: mcr0: soft ecc addr 120d syn 4
>
>Drag in your DEC FieldServicePerson and tell (her,him) that if you
>were running VMS it would have printed
>
>	%FOO-W-BAR, Some very long message that somewhere mentions
>	something about memory chip corrected errors without giving
>	anyone any clue as to what that means even though it takes
>	several thousand characters to say it,*
>		ADDR=00120D04
>
>-----
>*Just out of curiosity, I would like to know the actual message
>format, and the description under the %FOO-W-BAR key in the VMS
>manuals (which I suspect is something like this: `VMS has detected
>and corrected a minor hardware fault; call your Field Service
>Engineer'---i.e., utterly undescriptive).


Here is a VMS error log entry for a memory error.  I suggest that in the
future you get your facts before distorting them.

 V A X / V M S        SYSTEM ERROR REPORT      COMPILED  7-DEC-1987 09:56
                                                                PAGE   1.

 **************************** ENTRY    1043. ****************************
 ERROR SEQUENCE 62183.                             LOGGED ON SID 02006278

 CORRECTED MEMORY ERROR  25-SEP-1987 08:05:50.44
                         KA750    REV# 120.   UCODE REV# 98.

 CONTROLLER AT SLOT INDEX #0.

       CSR0            20266229
                                       ERROR SYNDROME = 29
                                       CORRECTED ERROR, BIT #9.
                                       ARRAY BANK #1. IN ERROR
                                       ARRAY #2. IN ERROR
                                       CORRECTED ERROR FLAG
       CSR1            10000000
                                       ENABLE REPORTING CORRECTED ERRORS
       CSR2            0100AAAA
                                       MEMORY SIZE = 8192.K
                                       MEMORY BASE ADDRESS = 0.K
                                       CONTROLLER IS L0016




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