[8289] in Athena Bugs
Re: rt 7.3M: kernel panic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jfc@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Sat Sep 28 13:41:04 1991
To: ckclark@mit.edu
Cc: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU, bug-kernel@Athena.MIT.EDU
From: jfc@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 27 Sep 91 21:20:46 EDT."
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 91 13:41:44 EDT
The panic was caused by a machine check while copying data from the
ethernet adapter. This means one of two things:
1. the ethernet adapter is bad
2. something else is wrong
There is a design flaw in the RT -- it's hard to find the exact cause
of a machine check.