From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 24 17:43:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAA1C37B409 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 17:43:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA17331 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 20:43:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.3/8.9.1) id f8P0grH71350; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 20:42:53 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15279.54029.454089.299807@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 20:42:53 -0400 (EDT) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: ecc on i386 X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What happens on an ECC equipped PC when you have a multi-bit memory error that hardware scrubbing can't fix? Will there be some sort of NMI or something that will panic the box? I'm used to alphas (where you'll get a fatal machine check panic) and I am just wondering if PCs are as safe. Thanks, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message