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From: emcalc@sugar.hackercorp.com (William M. Schmidt)
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Subject: Re: SunOS 4.1 kernel read fault panics
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Date: 4 Jun 90 03:41:03 GMT
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In article <8384@brazos.Rice.edu>, km@mathcs.emory.edu writes:
> We've been getting kernel read fault panics on our 4/280 server every few
> days since we converted to 4.1. "crash" doesn't show a real pattern, since
> we started saving the cores.  One time it was in the "ie" driver
> interrupting a user program, another time it was in the "zs" driver
> interrupting a system call.

On our 3/280 running an unpatched version of 4.1 we're seeing daily parity
errors on zs1, the keyboard/mouse interface. The interesting thing is that
since we're using a terminal as a console this device is not included in
the kernel configuration file. It'd be nice to know what's going on.

Bill Schmidt                 |
Texas Accelerator Center     | "Eagles may soar, but a worm never
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