Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 13:20:08 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-user@netscum.dk Cc: Neil Long <neil.long@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RELENG_3 buildworld problems Message-ID: <5.0.1.4.0.20001221131851.00a97c40@marble.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <20001221074550.A27660@citusc.usc.edu> References: <200012210615.eBL6FJw62370@crotchety.newsbastards.org> <E148rPa-0005py-00@ratbert.oucs.ox.ac.uk> <200012210615.eBL6FJw62370@crotchety.newsbastards.org>
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At 07:45 AM 12/21/00 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 07:15:19AM +0100, Reddy Crashalott wrote:
>
> > :: Anyone else seeing such weirdness?
> >
> > I've seen it with flaky memory. Try swapping bits of it out, or
> > doing a memory test, until you isolate the defective part(s)
>
>I have a dodgy IDE controller which also likes to flip bits.
Interesting you mention that. With a 3ware 6400 RAID card, setting the
strip size to 128K causes all sorts of memory errors using DOS and UNIX
memtest programs. Putting it back to the default 64K makes the problem go
away.
---Mike
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