Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 10:43:36 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Francisco Reyes <fran@reyes.somos.net> Cc: FreeBSD Chat List <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG>, Francisco Reyes <lists@reyes.somos.net>, David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Subject: Re: ECC worth the extra cost for SOHO server? Message-ID: <XFMail.010108104336.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101070905290.5014-100000@zoraida.reyes.somos.net>
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On 07-Jan-01 Francisco Reyes wrote: > On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, David Kelly wrote: > > Unless a memory chip fails catastrophically, its hard to find the errant > > chip. When they go bad they usually start logging an ECC correction > > every day or two. > Where does that get reported? As I understand ECC is handled by the > motherboard. The chipset reports them.. I think an error generates an NMI and a correction has to be read out of a chipset specific register. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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