From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 10:22:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 10:21:52 -0400 Received: from curlew.cs.man.ac.uk ([130.88.13.7]:33039 "EHLO curlew.cs.man.ac.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 10:21:41 -0400 Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 15:21:52 +0100 From: John Levon To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: broken memory chip -> software fix? Message-ID: <20010817152152.A60387@compsoc.man.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20010817161505.A25194@clipper.ens.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010817161505.A25194@clipper.ens.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.19i X-Url: http://www.movement.uklinux.net/ X-Record: 0898 Dave - Brack Dragon X-Toppers: N/A Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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