Re: Sun ships us bad RAM, says won't replace because it's not bad enough

From: John S. (fishinjts_at_netscape.net)
Date: 10/31/03 

Date: 31 Oct 2003 03:42:43 -0800

baby_p_nut2@yahoo.com (Baby Peanut) wrote in message news:<96d83290.0310301213.38eedcb@posting.google.com>...
> Here's the error messages that Sun says aren't bad enough to mandate a
> replacement module for our brand-new system.
>
> Oct 25 20:15:30 sparky SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+: [ID 648784 kern.info]
> [AFT0] errID 0x0007f3eb.2026e5b0 Corrected Memory Error on Slot A:
> J3200 is Persistent
> Oct 26 07:15:27 sparky SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+: [ID 287047 kern.info]
> [AFT0] errID 0x00081b35.b77953b4 Corrected Memory Error on Slot A:
> J3200 is Persistent
> Oct 28 07:15:29 sparky SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+: [ID 678828 kern.info]
> [AFT0] errID 0x0008b861.bc98b6b8 Corrected Memory Error on Slot A:
> J3200 is Persistent
> Oct 28 19:15:30 sparky SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+: [ID 837396 kern.info]
> [AFT0] errID 0x0008dfad.09b8899c Corrected Memory Error on Slot A:
> J3200 is Persistent
> Oct 29 07:15:29 sparky SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+: [ID 372731 kern.info]
> [AFT0] errID 0x000906f7.a4081b04 Corrected Memory Error on Slot A:
> J3200 is Persistent
> Oct 29 19:15:27 sparky SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+: [ID 648491 kern.info]
> [AFT0] errID 0x00092e42.782a221c Corrected Memory Error on Slot A:
> J3200 is Persistent
>
> Does Sun treat all their customers like this?

We had same thing... We resolved issue by cold booting during a
maintenance window...

hth,
john