RE: curious message in 2.0.36

Robert Dinse (Fabian.Frederick@prov-liege.be)
Thu, 9 Sep 1999 13:35:22 +0200


> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Leiden, Soren [mailto:soren@leiden.org]
> Envoyé : jeudi 9 septembre 1999 08:59
> À : linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Objet : curious message in 2.0.36
>
>
> A machine serving mail, dns, smb, http, and sql as well as
> doing routing and using ipfwadm -- working flawlessly.
> However, the following message was output to console some
> 5 times:

> ECC failed (0 CRC errors, >1 CRC failures)
> attempt to correct data at 255.

ECC tries to repair some transmission loss (what it stands for ; ))
Maybe those entries appeared disparately to relate some
_independant_ non cohesive datas or in one shot to signal
repetitive correction tries ... AFAIK problem isn't
kernel relevant at all, as kernel won't have to manage
ECC by itself (motherboard side).

Fabian

> The above message was repeated about 5 times a tthe console
> since initial boot 127 days ago:
>
> 1:40pm up 127 days, 3:02, 2 users, load average: 0.14,
> 0.19, 0.08
>
> Other information? :
>
> Linux corp 2.0.36 #1 Tue Dec 29 13:11:13 EST 1998 i686 unknown
>
> Module Pages Used by
> 3c509 2 1
> ftape-internal 3 0
> zftape 20 0
> ftape 35 [ftape-internal zftape] 0
> lp 2 0
> ne2k-pci 1 1
> 8390 2 [ne2k-pci] 0
> bsd_comp 1 0
> ppp 5 [bsd_comp] 0
> slhc 2 [ppp] 0
>
> Not really a big deal, everything still functions as it
> should-- just curious what the message means.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Soren
>
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