kriso@lombard.dartmouth.edu (Kris Olander) (03/19/91)
We keep getting some kernel panics on one of our Sparcstation1s running 4.0.3 with some reference to memory errors. When I look at the EEPROM parameters, I see 'selftest-#megs=1'. We have 16 meg of RAM in all our Sparc1s so I set this EEPROM parameter to 16 and run the monitor level memory test. The test always fails with a 'memory alignment error'. It turns out, that any other valid RAM value except 'selftest-#megs=1' fails with the same error message. I tested this on our other Sun4/80s and came up with the same results. Can some kind soul explain what's going on here? Does the Sun4/80 memory test only test 1 meg of RAM regardless of how much memory is installed? Is there a better way to test for bad RAM? Kris Olander --------------kris.olander@dartmouth.edu----------------