Wasn't there a problem with Intel's newest chipset and ECC DIMMs?
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Mark Hahn wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
> > None of the PC stuff ever corrected RAM errors with a CRC, even though
>
> nonsense. the BX chipset, for instance, most definitely supports SECDED;
> see section 3.3.28 in the datasheet. I believe the LX did as well,
> and the HX back in the P5 era. RDRAM seems to be _only_ available in ECC.
>
> > ECC RAM just accumulated bits from multiple columns to save parity
> > bits. It still hit MNI when it detected an error. Alpha and Suns
>
> BX is normally configured (if ECCing) to report only uncorrected errors.
> there's a chipset register to report the problem address, and you can
> tell it to report even corrected, single-bit errors. AFAIK none of this
> is touched by Linux.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Fri Apr 07 2000 - 21:00:15 EST