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Date:      Tue, 28 Aug 2001 22:27:33 -0500
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        "Brad Morgan" <B-Morgan@concentric.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4.4-rc instability 
Message-ID:  <200108290327.f7T3RXw72665@grumpy.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from "Brad Morgan" <B-Morgan@concentric.net>  of "Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:50:15 MDT." <NABBJOOEOFODEALNMJAJGEIFEGAA.B-Morgan@concentric.net> 

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"Brad Morgan" writes:
> 
> When all the errors are uncorrectable, this memory stick is just as
> worthless as non-parity or parity memory, but more expensive to replace.

Not much. $35.99 vs $39.59 for 256MB PC133 CL2 7.5ns.
http://www.crucial.com/store/PartSpecs.asp?imodule=CT32M64S4D7E
http://www.crucial.com/store/PartSpecs.asp?imodule=CT32M72S4D7E

> I believe FreeBSD does not "support" the reporting, logging, etc. of ECC
> correctable errors.

Someone was working on it a while back. The problem was the interface 
to the MB chipset is different for every chipset and poorly documented.

-- 
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net
=====================================================================
The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its
capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.



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