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Date:      Thu, 16 Jan 2003 11:48:12 -0900 (AKST)
From:      Mike Tibor <tibor@tibor.org>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>, Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, <alpha@FreeBSD.ORG>, <current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: unexpected machine check on 5.0 alpha
Message-ID:  <20030116114223.L27084-100000@xena.mikey.net>
In-Reply-To: <15910.50391.473362.53094@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Andrew Gallatin wrote:

(I wrote: )
>  > I believe a 670 machine check can also result from a read of a
>  > non-existent I/O space.  I'm not a programmer, but could that be the
>  > problem here?
>
> No, that's a 660. (system machine check).
> A 670 is much more likely to be bad ram, bad cache, bad CPU, etc.
> Its not always overheating.

Hmm... well, I got that from Jay Estabrook (works at DEC/Compaq/HP) via
the axp-list@redhat.com.  The archived message is here:

http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/axp-list/archive/1998-12/0491.html

FWIW...

Mike


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