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From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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Subject: Re: ECC RAM useless with FreeBSD?
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Mike Smith wrote in list.freebsd-hardware:
 > We don't, at this point in time, do anything with unrecoverable ECC 
 > errors to the best of my knowledge.

I see.

 > > Is this a know problem, a bug, or do I just expect too much?
 > 
 > I guess it counts as a "known problem", yes.  If you haven't thrown your 
 > flaky DIMM out, it would be _very_ useful to someone that actually wants 
 > to try to develop and test this sort of code.  If nobody contacts you 
 > directly, could you send it to me?  FTL will hold onto it until someone 
 > has a use for it.

Actually I intend to send it back to the reseller and (try to)
get a free replacement DIMM.  I'm sorry, but I need a new one,
and I can't afford to buy a new one.

Regards
   Oliver

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