From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Oct 19 9:30:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from world.tonkinresolutions.com (233-123.adsl6.netlojix.net [207.71.233.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFF7837B442; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:29:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (nick@localhost) by world.tonkinresolutions.com (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id f9JGODp81870; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:24:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick@rlnt.net) Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:24:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Nick Tonkin X-Sender: nick@world.tonkinresolutions.com To: John Baldwin Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: weird error message from usb0 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 19-Oct-01 Nick Tonkin wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > While trying to get my laptop working yesterday the usb drive panicked > > (I guess) and began spewing error messages. > > > > I was surprised to notice that about one in every 20 or so had a typo??!! > > > >> > usb0: host coftroller halted <--- > >> > usb0: host controller halted > >> > usb0: host controller halte` <--- > >> > usb0: host controller halted > > > > > > Once I rebooted this problem ceased, but I thought someone might like to > > know. > > n = 0x6e and f = 0x66, which means that there is a one-bit error there (0x8) > d = 0x64 and ` = 0x60, which is also a one-bit error (0x4) (albeit a different > bit). > > This is most likely due to memory errors. They might be transient, but you > probably have bad memory. > Yikes! I assume it would support that theory that I also couldn't compile a kernel yesterday, for a while, with weird errors (from random code) different each time ... and then, after a while, could? How can I test the RAM? It's 512MB in two dimms (I think) in a Dell Inspiron 7500. Thanks much, Nick > -- > > John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message