Hi all
i am using sun solaris 2.8 un sunultra10 sparc server.It is our firewall server. with check point firewall running.

but the server suddenly halted several times with the same error as follows....and then there was no option but to reboot.
the error was
panic [cpao]/thread=0*6115d360
pci108e,50001BM detected parity error
pci108e,50001:PBM generated system error
pci0 PBM generated target error
pcil08e,50000 PBM detectd parity error
pcilo8e,50000 PBM generated system error
pci0 PBM generated target error
pci0 PBM generated target error
pcio PCI err
pcio PBM received master -abort
PBM received target_abort
fast data access MMU miss


please suggest.
thanks and regards
Prafulla

I've never worked with Sun hardware, but I have seen an HP-UX box halt with parity errors, and I've had at least one Linux box go down with parity errors. In the cases that I have seen, they are caused by the memory - either it's bad, not seated correctly, or the heat got to them (in the case of my decrepit Linux box, my fan busted, and my memory fried even before my CPU).

I don't know where PCI0 is physically, but if you can find out, I bet that would lead you to the problem.

If this is the same system you are having problems with the hard drive then either your pci card may be bad or your hard drive.

Can you give more information on what started the problems, how long the system was running before this or if this is all new equipment, any other info would help.