Dave McGuire writes: > On Nov 10, 2007, at 1:19 PM, Scott Quinn wrote: > > Couple of questions on old Sun machines (well, parts). > > > On a Sun 4300 CPU board, I'm getting the > > "EEPROM Write-Write-Read-Read test > > error PA=0xF2000000 VA=0X00FF8000 Exp=0x0000005a Obs=0x00000000 > > (looping)" > > error. Looking on the Web and Usenet seems to show that this has > > happened a couple of times, with some reference to possibly being > > the NVRAM (although the most comprehensive posing set was in > > German :(). This seems a bit odd, though - on my other Suns it > > calls the NVRAM the NVRAM, so I'm wondering if this is something > else. > It's just a terminological difference. Most of those machines (if > I recall correctly) used 2816 NVRAM chips, which are also correctly > referred to as EEPROMs. Oh, so the Mostek unit isn't what this is talking about. Hmm- have to go over the board again. I saw the Mostek and assumed that it was the same as the 4c/m/u NVRAM setup .