Thanks to everyone who answered, my original post is on the bottom of this
message.
Here are some simple solutions.
Casper Dik <casper@Holland.Sun.COM>:
you need to type "reset" before you type "test-memory".
The OS does all kinds of things to the MMU that the PROM
doesn't like.
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mrl5600@sudcv91.ed.ray.com (Mark R. Lemoine (508)-440-5126):
At the "ok" prompt type in :
setenv selftest-#megs 64
(The 64 being how many megabytes of RAM you have installed)
and
setenv diag-switch? true
then
reset
This will test your SCSI bus, as well as your RAM.
If your RAM is bad, it'll be obvious, try switching
the SIMMS around.
To change things back to what they were :
setenv selftest-#megs 1
setenv diag-switch? false
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bspence@devtech.devtech.com (Robert L. Spence):
I've used the following steps to test memory:
ok setenv diag-switch? true
ok reset
The system will start to try and reboot, use Stop-A to interrupt
it. Now
you can continue:
ok test /memory
OR
ok test-memory
The memory will be properly tested. When finished, return the
system to
it's original state
ok setenv diag-switch? false
ok reset
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Ross Bennett <ross@gcs.oz.au>
I'm not 100% sure about this, but I think that when you halt
down your
system, some of the "variables" used by the boot prom code will have
been corrupted by the OS whilst it was running. This can cause memory
address alignment faults which would cause the errors that you have
been seeing.
The best check of this would be to power down your system, power it
back up and stop it with "L1-A" or "STOP-A" before it starts loading
vmunix, then run your memory test (ie test /memory or whatever).
This way the OS has not had a chance to do it's damage. If it gets
through that test, then everything is ok with memory.
Also, a better test for memory faults is to have your system running,
as the OS will use the memory fairly thoroughly. If you don't get panics
due to memory faults, then everything is ok. If you want to be more
certain, run the memory test in sundiag for a few hours, this will slow
your system down a bit, but it proves to be a pretty thorough test.
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All of this helped cleared out my "problem" and let me ask you, where else
can you learn that OS corruptes the MMU that used by PROM, I guess only
here.
Thank you very much.
>Hi Gurus !
>
>I have a Spark5/70 and everything seems to be working OK but if I halt the
>system and give it a test-memory I get:
>
> ok test-memory
> Testing Memory Instruction Access Exception
> ok
>
>or
>
> ok test-memory
> Testing Memory Access Exception
> ok
>
>It was happening for a while and now it doesn't even give me that, all what
>I get:
>
> ok test-memory -or test /memory
> (get a blink of -Testing Memory- and that is all, the line is left
>blank)
> ok
>Victor Kolosov.
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