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Date:      Sun, 28 Jun 1998 20:42:13 -0400
From:      Jerry Hicks <jerry_hicks@bigfoot.com>
To:        "Michael R. Gile" <gilem@wsg.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: determining ecc errors on freebsd-stable
Message-ID:  <3596E2E5.2A98B6BD@bigfoot.com>
References:  <199806282216.PAA16981@hub.freebsd.org>

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As usual, it depends.  Certainly a system implementation can provide the
registers and CPU notification mechanism to allow this function.  Sun
did, but most PC manufacturers don't.  The ones that
do probably won't give out the information (Compaq, et al).

The only way I know this might be possible with commonly available PC
hardware would be if Intel included this sort of feature in their
chipsets which provide an ECC function using parity memory SIMMs.

Otherwise that function is embedded within the SIMM, right?

Good Luck,

Jerry Hicks

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Michael R. Gile wrote:
[snips]
> Is there a way freebsd can be set to log the ecc corrections,
> like a sun box does?  If not, can someone point me to the
> necessary docs to add this?

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