Re: What is this: skge Ram read/write data parity error

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 16:40:27 +0100
Aaron Isotton <aaron@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Since some time I'm getting the following log entries under 2.6.15:
> 
> Mar  7 05:42:48 tiger kernel: skge Ram write data parity error
> Mar  7 05:42:48 tiger kernel: skge Ram read data parity error
> 
> Does this mean my hardware is faulty? The error message seems to imply
> that, but since I am not experiencing any problems and a comment in
> skge.c says
> 
> /* Parity errors seem to happen when Genesis is connected to a switch
>  * with no other ports present. Heartbeat error??
>  */
> 
> talking about some other sort of parity error though ("mac parity") I'm
> not sure any more. Can anybody enlighten me?	


Which exact hardware is that, look for the skge line in the kernel log (dmesg)?

I am not a hardware wizard, but I wrote that comment. My guess is that it shows
up when the hardware decides to clock in some data that isn't really a packet
(line noise, etc). Both skge and sk98lin just clear the error and keep going.

Does it happen a lot or just once?
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