Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!pyramid!prls!philabs!klb 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 Article-I.D.: briar.3029 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 Lines: 51 Keywords: syslog mcr0 ecc errors Xref: mnetor comp.unix.wizards:5909 comp.sys.dec:490 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 -- Ken Bourque klb@philabs.philips.com ...!{uunet,ihnp4,decvax}!philabs!klb