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Subject: Memory error?
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All:

Just got these messages in the log after installing FreeBSD 9.0-RC1 
on an older machine. The system hasn't shown any glitches or 
crashes, so the error wasn't fatal. I'm guessing that there was an 
error in cache memory that was corrected by ECC; is this correct?

Nov  4 08:31:21 joe kernel: MCA: Bank 3, Status 0x900000000001010a
Nov  4 08:31:21 joe kernel: MCA: Global Cap 0x0000000000000005, 
Status 0x0000000000000000
Nov  4 08:31:21 joe kernel: MCA: Vendor "GenuineIntel", ID 0x652, APIC ID 0
Nov  4 08:31:21 joe kernel: MCA: CPU 0 COR GCACHE L2 ERR error

--Brett Glass