Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 09:04:28 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: "Jan L. Peterson" <jlp@softhome.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: panic on 4.5-RELEASE Message-ID: <3C6E66EC.2050403@potentialtech.com> References: <20020213230828.34F3341EF4@mail.flipdog.com> <20020215175541.8BB33422CF@mail.flipdog.com>
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Jan L. Peterson wrote: > Yes, yes, following up to my own post and all that... > > It appears that it may have been bad RAM. I have swapped out the RAM > on the machine with the new disk and have not seen the problem. If I > see it again, I'll send out a new report. You know, I see this all the time. Bad RAM seems to be about the most common harware problem out there. Just a few days ago, I spend an entire morning trying to figure out why a brand new machine kept panicing on install. The panic messages seemed to suggest the HDD and I tried 3 different HDDs before I got smart and swapped out the RAM. It installed and has been running fine for 3 days now. I've never experienced it, but I've heard a lot of people mention that some other OS ran fine, but installing FreeBSD uncovered a problem with RAM. Does anyone know why this is? What does FreeBSD do differently with RAM that causes it to expose flaky RAM more than Windows-ish OSes? -- Bill Moran Potential Technology http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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