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From: John Levon <moz@compsoc.man.ac.uk>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: broken memory chip -> software fix?
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 15:21:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010817152152.A60387@compsoc.man.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010817161505.A25194@clipper.ens.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20010817161505.A25194@clipper.ens.fr>

On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 04:15:05PM +0200, David Madore wrote:

> Hi all.
> 
> I have a broken bit in my memory - at address 0x04d5ae38 if you want
> to know the details (bit 29 of the double word there sometimes reads
> as 1 when it was written as 0, in particular if bit 15 is at 1).  I
> discovered this by observing a one-bit corruption of some files, and
> diagnosed it by running memtest86.

badRAM patch linked from kernelnewbies.org/patches (please check there first
in the future, most things should be listed).

> translation?  If so, how?  I would prefer not to have to patch the
> kernel, if at all possible.

it's not

regards
john

-- 
"This bulletin discusses three security vulnerabilities that are
 unrelated except in the sense that both affect ISA Server 2000"
	- Microsoft Product Security

  reply	other threads:[~2001-08-17 14:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-17 14:15 David Madore
2001-08-17 14:21 ` John Levon [this message]
2001-08-17 14:25 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-17 23:08   ` David Madore
2001-08-17 14:26 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-08-17 14:46   ` Dr. Michael Weller

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