Re: [suse-axp] SRM manual and 'Machine Check' ?

From: William H. Magill (magill@isc.upenn.edu)
Date: Fri Jan 05 2001 - 06:33:48 PST

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    Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 09:33:48 -0500 (EST)
From: "William H. Magill" <magill@isc.upenn.edu>
Message-Id: <200101051433.f05EXm000821@falstaff.isc-net.upenn.edu>
Subject: Re: [suse-axp] SRM manual and 'Machine Check' ?

    > If I remember correctly, NT doesn't report machine checks like Linux/Tru64
    > do.
    > --rdp
    > On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Greg wrote:
    >
    > > >a 'Machine Check' points to a hardware failure.
    > > >Did this machine ever boot and run with OpenVMS, Tru64 or NT ?
    > > >
    > > >bye
    > > > tom
    > >
    > > Yes, it ran under NT for a while before SuSE 7.0 was available. Never had
    > > any problem installing anything under NT. And I've tried it once again
    > > after the initial attempt to install SuSE (with no problems at all).
    > >
    > > Bye, and thx,
    > > Gr.

    Under Tru64 "machine checks" are usually single-bit (ie, corrected) memory
    errors. They can be other hardware problems, but single-bit errors are
    pretty common and non-fatal, but they are reported. 

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