Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 10:47:54 EDT From: Bsdguru@aol.com To: ticso@mail.cicely.de Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ecc on i386 Message-ID: <f4.100fd30a.28e7391a@aol.com>
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In a message dated 9/28/01 10:21:58 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ticso@mail.cicely.de writes: > > 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 > > Haeh - if your memory content has been changed behind you can only hope > that it doesn't trashed some important metadata and won't trash the > whole system. > Well it's much better if you check the use of the memory region and do > some inteligent handling. > But ignoring is definately a very dangerous thing. > Well if you didnt snip out the context you wouldnt have an argument at all, since I said to make it an option to shut down or issue a warning. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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