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depot troubles
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karen Walrath N1XUL)
Wed Sep 3 14:50:43 1997
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
Cc: phils@MIT.EDU, thg@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 1997 14:50:34 EDT
From: Karen Walrath N1XUL <karen@MIT.EDU>
A sparcstation 4 named depot, located next to 9-532, seems to have
some hardware troubles.
1) When you run top, it shows that it is spending all of its time in
i/o wait.
2) If you shut it down and run test-all or test-memory, it gives
gobs of errors, but only the first time you run the test!
The errors contain info that it is U-number J301 (for all of them)
and the errors run along the lines of expected 0xa5a5a5a5, got
0xa5a501a5 or such.
But it is really weird. If you run the test again, it runs fine.
If you reboot and shut down, it fails again, but only the first
time.
I'm assuming that these two items are related.
Thanks.
Karen
