From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 28 3:22:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E54C337B403 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 03:22:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (root@spare0.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.114]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA24794 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 19:52:14 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.7 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200108281011.MAA27326@lurza.secnetix.de> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 19:52:11 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.4-rc instability Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 28-Aug-2001 Oliver Fromme wrote: > I think I still have that broken DIMM somewhere in a > drawer, and I'm willing to send it to anyone who wants to > look at it and improve FreeBSD's handling of this (I > already offered this a few months ago, but got no reply). > On the other hand, this particular one is probably too > broken to be even useful for this kind of stuff. > > Anyhow, that's my story about ECC memory. Someone recently ported some linux code which does this.. It's a bit of a hack job but it apparently works :) (For supported chipsets..) http://www.gsoft.com.au/~doconnor/eccmodule.tar.gz I think someone was working on integrating it, but it's quite difficult.. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message