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>>>>> "s" == sp4rc  <sammyshome@gmx.net> writes:

     s> any PROM updates for this old workstation on sun's website...

I haven't found any problems booting with old PROM versions on the
ultra 5/10.  I upgraded mine because of some intermittent ecache (L2
cache?) panic that I don't know if the PROM helped or not, but there
was some changelog about memory timings, and in at least 178 days no
more ecache panic.  If you'd like to try a new one, here it is:

 ftp://castrovalva.ivy.net/pub/carton/openboot-106121-18.zip

It is available on Sun's site, without a support contract, but it's
easier for me to post than to find again.  I used rarp and tftp with
'boot net' to install it.  I think Sun has put some older versions in
there for you too.

(i dunno about ecache, but believe it or not with 1GB of RAM solaris
logs one or two corrected ECC errors a month, not at the same address.
I was surprised the infrastructure could matter that much for normal
users:

Apr  7 00:55:57 amber SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi: [ID 612716 kern.info] [AFT0] Corrected Memory Error detected by CPU0, errID 0x003080de.2d71c713
Apr  7 00:55:57 amber     AFSR 0x00000000.00100000<CE> AFAR 0x00000000.13900ec0
Apr  7 00:55:57 amber     AFSR.PSYND 0x0000(Score 05) AFSR.ETS 0x00 Fault_PC 0xfecf33a0
Apr  7 00:55:57 amber     UDBH Syndrome 0x1f Memory Module DIMM3
Apr  7 00:55:57 amber SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi: [ID 337518 kern.info] [AFT0] errID 0x003080de.2d71c713 Corrected Memory Error on DIMM3 is Intermittent
Apr  7 00:55:57 amber SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi: [ID 625712 kern.info] [AFT0] errID 0x003080de.2d71c713 ECC Data Bit 44 was in error and corrected
Apr 22 09:09:27 amber SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi: [ID 993562 kern.info] [AFT0] Corrected Memory Error detected by CPU0, errID 0x00353680.67ddb05c
Apr 22 09:09:27 amber     AFSR 0x00000000.00100000<CE> AFAR 0x00000000.2dd00b30
Apr 22 09:09:27 amber     AFSR.PSYND 0x0000(Score 05) AFSR.ETS 0x00 Fault_PC 0x103e598
Apr 22 09:09:27 amber     UDBH Syndrome 0xb9 Memory Module DIMM1
Apr 22 09:09:27 amber SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi: [ID 779565 kern.info] [AFT0] errID 0x00353680.67ddb05c Corrected Memory Error on DIMM1 is Persistent
Apr 22 09:09:27 amber SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi: [ID 396745 kern.info] [AFT0] errID 0x00353680.67ddb05c ECC Data Bit 26 was in error and corrected

I mean, what, maybe my RAM is ``marginal'', but I haven't been pissing
on it or anything---I'm a normal user with normal ram, and my box is
still up.  stupid ECC-less PeeCees.
)

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