Subject: Re: What does this error mean?
To: Kevin P. Neal <kpneal@pobox.com>
From: Jeremy Cooper <jeremy@broder.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/30/1997 22:07:04
On Thu, 30 Jan 1997, Kevin P. Neal wrote:

> What causes a le0: memory error?

I too, think that you might have a bad memory chip.

The LANCE chip executes a DMA read roughly every 10 miliseconds during
normal system operation.  If this cycle returns in an error, it will
complain with this message.  There are only two ways that this could
happen on the Sun4m.  The first is an I/O MMU misconfiguration, and 
the second is just a plain 'old error detected in the read cycle.  This
could be a hint that your RAM might have problems.

-J