Subject: unexpected machine checks
To: None <port-alpha@netbsd.org>
From: Nick <nmanisca@vt.edu>
List: port-alpha
Date: 01/12/2001 17:53:43
My Alpha had an Unexpected Machine Check for the first time
today... I was burning a CD with cdrecord and I had just ssh'd
into the machine when the panic occured. On the console I
found the following (approx):
Unexpected Machine Check
mces = 0x1
vector = 0x660
param = 0xfffffc0000006000
pc = 0xfffffc0000302c20
ra = 0xfffffc0000302bfc
curproc = 0x0
BTW this is an AlphaStation 200 4/233 running NetBSD 1.5
So I rebooted and continued using the machine for a while,
then while burning another CD and using amp (to convert mp3's
to wav's) it suffered another machine check (approx):
Unexpected Machine Check
mces = 0x1
vector = 0x660
param = 0xfffffc0000006000
pc = 0xfffffc0000302c20
ra = 0xfffffc0007372f10
curproc = 0x0
pid = 362, comm = amp
Is this indicative of bad memory? How would I go about
finding out what these machine checks mean?
Maybe my reliability problems burning CDs and these
machine checks are related? I think I had better stop
trying to burn CDs until I get this sorted out... I've
destroyed 5 today.
Thanks,
Nick Maniscalco