Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 10:50:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@phone.net> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Random disk read problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908151047540.411-100000@guru.phone.net> In-Reply-To: <19990815081434.24844.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au>
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On Sun, 15 Aug 1999, Greg Black wrote: :->It's certainly worth turning on the memory checking. If it :->fails, then you can be certain the memory is no good. And if it :->passes, you can't trust the result :-) Well, what happens when the board fails? Do I get log messages? Something else? :->I built a new box out of bits last week and got all sorts of :->random failures, with various programs crashing in odd ways. In :->each case, md5 checksums of the faulty program and the original :->on the CD differed. I bet on bad memory, turned on the memory :->checks and fortunately it failed, so my vendor agreed to swap :->the memory, although when he saw FreeBSD starting up after he :->swapped the chip he wanted to blame the OS for the problem :-( I suspect the warranty won't cover this - assuming that it's still valid. I was hoping to buy a second CPU, not memory :-(. I wonder if insurance will cover this. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the messagehelp
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