PROBLEM:  			(Patch ID: OSF435-425355)
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This patch fixes a situation on the AlphaServer 4100 where a system heavily 
loaded with I/O traffic will exhibit error messages from the environmental
monitoring subsystem which are not in fact errors.

Example in context of other system messages:

20-APR-1998 12:16:55.87 FURLAN dlm_agent: suspending lock activity
20-APR-1998 12:16:56.12 FURLAN cnxagent: added node tlithamc
20-APR-1998 12:16:56.20 FURLAN dlm_agent: resuming lock activity

20-APR-1998 14:11:43.73 FURLAN ERROR: i2c_read_func_reg: enviromental monitorin
20-APR-1998 14:11:43.81 FURLAN physical sensing device not responding properly.

22-APR-1998 08:24:36.98 FURLAN mchan1: State change mcport = 72440000 mcerr= 20
22-APR-1998 08:24:37.07 FURLAN mchan1: old node state = 56 new node_state = 54
22-APR-1998 08:24:37.14 FURLAN mchan1: Log to Binary Error log ... error = 1401