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Date:      Fri, 15 Jan 1999 10:19:34 -0600
From:      Zach Heilig <zach@uffdaonline.net>
To:        Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org>, Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Weird file corruption?
Message-ID:  <19990115101934.C16631@znh.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901131724420.19040-100000@janus.syracuse.net>; from Brian Feldman on Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 05:26:40PM -0500
References:  <199901130527.VAA10163@bubba.whistle.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901131724420.19040-100000@janus.syracuse.net>

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On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 05:26:40PM -0500, Brian Feldman wrote:
...
> How could it be memory when it's written to disk, extracted, then after a nearly
> full build read again? Why would it extract completely the first time with no
> errors?

I had this exact same problem when evaluating pentium motherboards a
while back.  One of my (parity!) simms was marginal [later verified
with a simm checker], but it was not noticed until after I made one
corrupt archive [and deleted the originals].  Luckily, both the simm
and the motherboard were still returnable.

This also verified for me that most Intel chipsets for pentium do
not use parity even if available.

-- 
Zach Heilig <zach@uffdaonline.net> / Zach Heilig <zach@gaffaneys.com>

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