From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 15 11:51:19 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA02477 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 11:51:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA02472 for ; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 11:51:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from green@unixhelp.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA05385; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 14:51:01 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 14:51:01 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Feldman X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: Zach Heilig cc: Archie Cobbs , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Weird file corruption? In-Reply-To: <19990115101934.C16631@znh.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Zach Heilig wrote: > 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. Good to know I am looking in the right place. I switched my timings from Turbo to Normal (I have 2 EDO/2 FP), and now it seems to past tests, but I think I did see a few bytes get corrupted in an image in netscape... ah well, so you'd recommend finding someone with a SIMM checker? > > This also verified for me that most Intel chipsets for pentium do > not use parity even if available. > > -- > Zach Heilig / Zach Heilig > Brian Feldman _ __ ___ ___ ___ green@unixhelp.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ http://www.freebsd.org/ _ __ ___ ____ | _ \__ \ |) | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ ___ ____ _____ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message