Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 18:42:20 -0400 From: Leo Papandreou <leo@talcom.net> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: determining ecc errors on freebsd-stable Message-ID: <19980629184220.15472@supersex.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980629083014.25711A-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>; from Tom on Mon, Jun 29, 1998 at 08:42:31AM -0700 References: <199806290401.OAA02134@gsms01.alcatel.com.au> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980629083014.25711A-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
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On Mon, Jun 29, 1998 at 08:42:31AM -0700, Tom wrote: > [...] > > Summary: > > - ECC is MUCH better than non-ECC Will ECC on the cache trap RAM errors even if the RAM doesnt have ECC? > - Memory failure is rare. FreeBSD still doesn't have multi-path IO to > recover from controler card failure, which occurs much more often. Or, > clustering which can protect against software failures (which are still > much common than any kind of hardware failure). So putting so much > emphasis on ECC is unnecessary. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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