From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Feb 15 11:11:18 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 CD23F37B405 for ; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 11:11:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp-relay.omnis.com (smtp-relay.omnis.com [216.239.128.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BD3E43F3F for ; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 11:11:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.homeunix.net (66-75-151-22.san.rr.com [66.75.151.22]) by smtp-relay.omnis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF582430E7; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 11:11:13 -0800 (PST) From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr To: Wilko Bulte Subject: Re: ECC memory error reporting Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 19:11:12 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , "Daniel O'Connor" , Erick Mechler , FreeBSD Stable List References: <20030214070641.GV20271@techometer.net> <200302141653.54888.wes@softweyr.com> <20030215161152.B65022@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20030215161152.B65022@freebie.xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200302151911.12976.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 Saturday 15 February 2003 15:11, 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" 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? Yeah. Most of the radiological materials used in the USA during the nuclear boom of the 40s and 50s were dug out of the ground within a 200 mile radius of Moab. The rock buttes around there are dotted with old uranium mines, also rich in Cs 137 and Sr 90. The Bureau of Land Management (aka the Bureau of Livestock and Mining) has slowly been cementing over the entrances of the mines for years. People go in there and wander around, not realizing they're getting a lifetime of radiation in a 2-hour visit and inhaling concentrations of Radon that make doctors shudder in horror. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message