[osol-discuss] fmadm fault and disabling dimms

2011-03-11 Thread Paul Robertson
Our V890 server reported a memory fault, rebooted, and now shows the following: csgams08:~sudo fmadm faulty Password: --- -- - TIMEEVENT-ID MSG-ID SEVERITY ---

Re: [osol-discuss] fmadm fault and disabling dimms

2011-03-11 Thread Jerry Sutton
I believe you will find that fmd has disabled this DIMM or DIMMs. If you know how much memory is supposed to be there you can check the output of 'prtconf, or, preferably, that of prtdiag -v and compare that to what you believe is physically installed. The last time I read the fmadm manpage, as

Re: [osol-discuss] fmadm fault and disabling dimms

2011-03-11 Thread Jason
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 11:21 PM, Jerry Sutton jer...@airmail.net wrote: I believe you will find that fmd has disabled this DIMM or DIMMs. If you know how much memory is supposed to be there you can check the output of 'prtconf, or, preferably, that of prtdiag -v and compare that to what you

Re: [osol-discuss] fmadm fault and disabling dimms

2011-03-11 Thread Rob Johnston
fmd itself will not disable DIMMs. The firmware on some SPARC platforms (I don't think the V890 is one of them) may blacklist DIMMs that experience a fatal UE. From the OS' point of view, a blacklisted DIMM will appear to have effectively disappeared. But that is not what happened here.