Dirty scache and panic

Sheldon T. Hall - DO NOT · *nix forums beginner Joined: 24 Jun 2005 Posts: 14

My Challenge L has a problem.

The machine tries to boot, declares that it has a "dirty scache",
panics, and reboots. Over and over. Repeat until I'm well-lathered.

I would have thought the secondary cache was on the IP25 processor
board, but changing to a different, previously-tested-good IP25 board
doesn't change things.

This happened once before, but a general cleaning and re-seating of
everything fixed it, at least for a couple of weeks.

Is it possible that some software is causing this?

If not, where is the secondary cache and what can I do about this?

Machine specs: Challenge L deskside, 1 four-processor IP25 (R10K), 2
MC3 (totalling about 3 GB RAM), 1 IO4.

Please answer in the newsgroup; the email address on this posting is a
spamtrap.

Thanks for any suggestions.

-Shel

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