On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Alvin Oga wrote: > even if one uses ecc... ecc can only fix certain errors, > and non-correctable errors are flagged and not fixed > ( burst errors are hard to fix ) > > and people that use ecc memory ... usually have higher-end motherboards > and more memory in the system vs the $50 motherboard+cpu combo (disasters) > from fries ( a local pc store ) One thing thats been irritating me for a long time is that it's all very well using (and paying for!) ECC memory, but there are parts of the system that don't have ECC or parity - eg. the PCI bus, processor bus and internal paths, and so on... But where do you draw the line? Gordon - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
