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From: rjn@hpfcso.HP.COM (Bob Niland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: 9000/370 Problems...
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Date: 20 Jul 90 16:34:18 GMT
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re: > Perhaps you can help solve a mystery...

Perhaps, but we'll need more information.


> We have a 9000/370 w/16M 2disks one is a 7963B the other a 7937. ( Whether
> this matters or not, who knows... ) Attached to an ethernet network and a
> Novell Network.

Can you give us the whole configuration: cards, slots, addresses, etc.
In particular, do you have one of your disks on a 98625A card?


> Since about March we have been expirencing system crashes.  Generally the
> system panics about a parity error ,dumps stuff to the console, then
> hangs.

The exact message(s) would be helpful.  Do you mean memory parity errors?
Do you have parity or ECC RAM?  When my workstation was a 16M 350 with
parity RAM, I was experiencing random transient parity errors and crashes
about once every 3 months (cosmic rays, alpha particles or whatever).  Must
be the Colorado altitude.  Since converting to ECC, the problem disappeared.

Regards,                                              Hewlett-Packard
Bob Niland      Internet: rjn@hpfcrjn.FC.HP.COM       3404 East Harmony Road
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