From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 28 6:47: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from imo-r08.mx.aol.com (imo-r08.mx.aol.com [152.163.225.104]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCDBA37B40A for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 06:46:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Bsdguru@aol.com by imo-r08.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31_r1.7.) id e.a7.147ebf08 (4417); Fri, 28 Sep 2001 09:46:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Bsdguru@aol.com Message-ID: Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 09:46:19 EDT Subject: Re: ecc on i386 To: peter@wemm.org Cc: hackers@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 138 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In a message dated 9/25/01 1:05:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time, peter@wemm.org writes: > > Well, at least we take the machine down, which is a heck of a lot > > better than ignoring the problem, which is really all that I was > > hoping for. I dont think this is "good". Back in the XT days we used to get a false parity error every once on a while on an ISA card...taking the machine down on a bit error (which XTs used to do) was completly wrong and unnecessary. If you are using the box as a router, you dont want the machine to do down because of a memory error, or in this case, a non-error. It should certainly be optional. If you are running a R/O or flash system there is no harm in keeping the machine running if possible. B To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message