Re: Single-bit corrected errors
- From: Keith <krw@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 22:32:27 -0500
On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 18:48:50 -0600, willbill wrote:
Keith wrote:
I've been moving disk drives (DVD and HDD) around and upgrading OS
(SuSE 9.0 to 10.0) over the past couple of days.
i've got the same Tyan AMD/940 mobo as you (S2875s), and
i remember your fairly recent use of 9.0 (and problems
of some sort?)
I got 9.0 to be pretty stable. There were things I didn't like about it
(USB sticks were a PITA), but never had any real issues. The ECC
problems have been under the covers since day one, pretty much. I only
looked in the BIOS for hints trying to track down other problems. The
error los were full and dated back at least a year, perhaps to day-one.
what exactly prompts you to go to 10.0?
USB sticks, primarily. Possible SATA support was another reason. A
workign DVD player? Nah!
USB sticks now work, at the cost of dual-display. :-( ...and DVDs still
might just as well be blank. I haven't gotten around to test SATA yet.
After a couple of years, the drive is still just heating the room.
i ass-u-me you think it's gonna solve yer 9.0 problem(s)?
USB sticks work. Dual display broke. :-( SATA is still a maybe. Again,
9.0 was pretty stable (ok, so I have to get my head examined...).
i mean, did you buy 10.0 at full-retail/discount, or from a
discount/show/friend/e-bay source or what?
Full retail boat: $59.95 plus 7% sales tax. :-( ...from Best Buy, no
less! <shudder>
as you might guess, i've got some interest in going back into Linux
(i've used Unix on/off since '89)
I sorta like it for some things, not so for others. My Windows machine
has been sitting in the corner for a couple of months waiting for time to
get all the frappin' cables set up, if that gives you a clue how much I
*need* WinBlows. OTOH, SHMBO kinda wants to get a (film capable) scanner
digital cameras, and a *PRINTER* (her emphasis) working, so...
and yes, i'm posting this via win98se <big grin!> and Mozilla 1.7.7
(i've been on the bleeding s/w edge too many times!; i've learned my
lesson! :) )
SuSE 10.0 isn't exactly bleeding-edge. It's been out for a while. I
didn't go to 10._later_than_zero because it _is_ alpha or beta.
In the process
I've been playing with BIOS to get the drives ordered the way I wanted
(and figure out who listens to BIOS drive ordering ;). While trying to
figure out some strangeness I cleaned out the BIOS messages area. Last
night I kept getting beeps (about one an hour). It took a while to
isolate it, but finally looked at the hardware error report in the
setup screens. Seems I've been getting a corrected single-bit error in
the same location on average about once an hour. I guess ECC actually
does something. ;-)
sorry that it's happened to you, but it's good to hear that it really
works, from a reliable source, namely: you
Aw <blush>. Actually, I'm kinda interested in this stuff now. Before it
was a matter of "it works or it doesn't". ...only her hairdresser knows
for sure. Now the hairdresser has come out of the closet and we
still don't know what s/he is. ;-)
like you, i suspected that it really worked, but like you, i had my dark
doubts
Exactly. Now I'm shocked (*shocked*, I tell ya') that they can't pinpoint
the problem, given the error code. OTOH, I'm sorta pleased that Tyan has
given me the time of day; answers, such as they are, over the weekend
even.
....now to figure out which stick is faulty (it's all Crucial, with a
lifetime warranty ;-). If everything is right in the world the error
report _should_ point me to it. All I need is the Rosetta stone.
can't help you with which stick
You're not alone. ;-)
especially can't help you with Rosetta stone
<"A basalt tablet bearing inscriptions in Greek
and in Egyptian hieroglyphic and demotic scripts that was discovered
in 1799 near Rosetta, a town of northern Egypt in the Nile River
delta, and provided the key to the decipherment of Egyptian
hieroglyphics.">
i grant that PC computers (whichever OS) are like hieroglyphics. :)
LOL! Sometimes I think people purposely treat what they know as such a
secret (one programmer refused make his source "public" - didn't last
long) to protect their jobs. Too bad, because the ones who know what's
going on needn't protect anything. Those who hide, have a reason and
aren't needed. Has noone heard the old programmers saw; if you don't know
what to do with an error, don't test for it? ;-)
--
Keith
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