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From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
Subject: Re: How to enable logging of machine checks?
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On 2001-Dec-07 10:58:46 -0500, Jameel Akari <jakari@bithose.com> wrote:
>	Indeed, the Multia does (almost) the same thing.  On of my Multias
>running Linux eventually succumbed to the dreaded "heat death" where one
>of the ECC logic chips on the board and it pullup resistors get fried,
>causing random ECC "errors".

Actually the 74F623 is just an octal buffer for the L2 (external) cache.
And, based on my decoding of the LCA memory interface, the L2 cache ECC
is disabled by default.

>	Does anyone have a "tips and tricks" about FreeeBSD on the
>Multia.. things I should know about before I bust out the soldering iron
>and fix the Multia just for kicks?

About the only problem I've found is that the TGA isn't supported by
default - but that is nearly fixed.

Peter

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