Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 10:13:20 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, Erick Mechler <emechler@techometer.net>, FreeBSD Stable List <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ECC memory error reporting Message-ID: <200302151013.20323.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <20030215161152.B65022@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20030214070641.GV20271@techometer.net> <200302141653.54888.wes@softweyr.com> <20030215161152.B65022@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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On Saturday 15 February 2003 07:11 am, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 04:53:54PM -0800, Wes Peters wrote: > > 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" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> 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. > > Moab.. that reminds me of funny colored heaps of debris, with a fence > that had yellow warning signs on them. Could not read that from the > road, so stopped and use the telephoto lens to take a closer look. > Basically said something like "radioactive waste, don't stop, keep > driving'. Which I did.. > > That the place you mean? That is the place but Wes probably drives by some similar heaps outside of SLC. Unless they have finished cleaning them up. The mines were around Moab but some of the processing was done outside of SLC. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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