Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 22:09:04 -0500 From: Jim King <jim.king@mail.sstar.com> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: determining ecc errors on freebsd-stable Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980628220904.008411f0@mail.sstar.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980628170147.21133A-100000@shell.uniserve.ca > References: <199806282216.PAA16981@hub.freebsd.org>
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At 05:04 PM 6/28/98 -0700, Tom <tom@uniserve.com> wrote: > >On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Michael R. Gile wrote: > >> there have been some suggestions to my previous post about signal 10 errors >> that it could be a memory problem. If this is the case, i would think that >> the ecc controller would be correcting at least some of these problems. >> 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? > > Most systems do not have ECC capable memory. All off the shelf consumer >level computers certainly don't, though most can be upgraded by replaced >the memory. > > There is no way to log ECC corrections are they are done >transparently in the hardware, and currently there is no mechanism for the >hardware to make available that kind of info. My very newest PC (a Gateway 400 MHz Pentium II, just unboxed Friday) has an option in the BIOS configuration to log ECC corrections via DMI. I know almost nothing about DMI, but I would assume there's some way to get at this information besides the BIOS config utility. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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