From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Feb 14 17: 3:11 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0D2F37B401 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 17:03:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp-relay.omnis.com (smtp-relay.omnis.com [216.239.128.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B0A343FE0 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 17:03:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from salty.rapid.stbernard.com (corp-2.ipinc.com [199.245.188.2]) by smtp-relay.omnis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF8B642C87; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 16:53:55 -0800 (PST) From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr.com To: Wilko Bulte , Dag-Erling Smorgrav Subject: Re: ECC memory error reporting Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 16:53:54 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" , Erick Mechler , FreeBSD Stable List References: <20030214070641.GV20271@techometer.net> <20030214135928.A2869@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20030214135928.A2869@freebie.xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200302141653.54888.wes@softweyr.com> 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 Friday 14 February 2003 04:59, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 08:28:54AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > "Daniel O'Connor" writes: > > > Bit clunky, but it does the job (well.. I haven't seen any ECC errors > > > so it's hard to be sure :) > > > > Try sprinkling some iron filings onto your motherboard, just to make > > sure it works 8) > > Alternatively find a surplus hospital Cobalt-60 radiation therapy > unit. That should give you nice random soft errors on the memory Or take the machine to Moab for the weekend, that's where a lot of the Cobalt-60 comes from. It's a lovely place, and you come back with a nice tan whether the sun shines or not. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message