Hi,
 
A friend of mine noticed some hard memory errors (:SYSDIAG / LOGTOOL / MEMRPT)
on their HP3000 and called HP.  The CE said, as I understand it,:
 
   1) MPE/iX 5.0 has the ability to mark a page "bad" and not use it,
      so don't worry.
 
   2) HP won't replace a board if less than 10% of the pages have had
      errors.
 
This raises some questions in my mind:
 
   1) does the "mark page bad" "stick" across multiple reboots and
      power cycles, like a "spared track" on a disk drive?
      (I'd be surprised if it does)
 
   2) say WHAT?  That's a completely unacceptable policy, as far
      as I'm concerned.  If I have a board that generates soft errors
      or correctable hard errors (5.0 terminology), then it darn well
      *might* be generating undetectable errors, too!
 
   3) If this isn't really an HP policy, how should my friend go about
      solving the problem?
 
thanks,
 
Stan Sieler
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