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Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 13:59:28 +0100
From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>,
	Erick Mechler <emechler@techometer.net>,
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Subject: Re: ECC memory error reporting
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On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 08:28:54AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> writes:
> > Bit clunky, but it does the job (well.. I haven't seen any ECC errors so
> > it's hard to be sure :)
> 
> Try sprinkling some iron filings onto your motherboard, just to make
> sure it works 8)

Alternatively find a surplus hospital Cobalt-60 radiation therapy 
unit. That should give you nice random soft errors on the memory

:)

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