Memory address not aligned
Rick Crispin
crispin at aramis.rutgers.edu
Tue Nov 7 03:44:22 AEST 1989
Recently, while trying to track down a mysterious problem with one of our
Sparc Stations (various crashes), I noticed that when doing the
"memory-test" in diag it sometimes comes back saying "Memory address not
aligned."
I thought this was a hardware failure until I found that it also occurs on
a number of other Sparc Stations that we have (Mono & color). Sun
service was not able to explain what causes the error, and replacing the
cpu, memory, video, scsi... doesn't seem to make much of a difference.
Has anyone else seen this "error" message ??? Does anyone know what it
means ???
As far as I can figure out, the Suns are working fine, although they will
give this message every once in a while when running the diag memory-test.
(eg. On power up... L1-A, n, memory-test... it might pass once or twice
and then fail. Or it will fail right away and not pass again until you do
a power reset. Other times it happens very almost all the time.)
Thanks
-rick crispin
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