Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 14:01:52 +1000 (EST) From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: determining ecc errors on freebsd-stable Message-ID: <199806290401.OAA02134@gsms01.alcatel.com.au>
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On Sun, 28 Jun 1998 19:57:26 -0700 (PDT), Tom <tom@uniserve.com> wrote: > Basically, if a fixable error occurs, you won't know about it. If an >unfixable error occurs, you'll know real fast. Which substantially reduces the usefulness of ECC. It may increase the MTBF (since a single-bit failure is now hidden), but it no longer provides fault tolerance since you can't detect a memory module that is getting flaky (or has a hard error). Yet another design engineer for the firing squad... Peter -- Peter Jeremy (VK2PJ) peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au Alcatel Australia Limited 41 Mandible St Phone: +61 2 9690 5019 ALEXANDRIA NSW 2015 Fax: +61 2 9690 5247 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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