Donna writes:
> under the heading of 'it could never happen to me....' :-} i got the
> dreaded early morning phone call telling me my 3000 (918) had gone
> down.  the response center wasn't able to tell me anything about the
> series of error messages i was getting, so i thought i ask here.  in
> the bottom left-hand corner of the console, repeating in a cycle, the
> system was reporting:
> flt bf00
> flt 0182
> flt 0200
> flt dead
>
> the best the rc could tell me was they thought the o/s had panicked,
> although they didn't know why, and had shut the system down.  this
> happened around 6:30am and there were 2 users logged on - so the
> system load was probably (real) light.           tia    - d


Well, BF00 means "low level halt" (the "B" and "00"), presumably by
processor in slot $F.

But, most all low-level halts I'm familiar with have codes between $0001 and
$00fb.  Yours is $8200 (the FLT 0182, 0200 is read as: here's a
16-bit number...part 01 is $82, and part 02 (the low order part) is $00).

If the number had been 0100 0282,  or just 0182 (and no 02xx value), then
that would be low-level halt $82, which would mean something like
"see section 5 of the processor ACD (Architecture Control Document) to
see what trap $82 - $80 (or, $2) is".

Did you take a memory dump?

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