[CentOS] ECC RAM Error

Lance Davis lance at centos.org
Thu Oct 11 13:49:36 UTC 2007


On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Centos wrote:

> was wondering if it is safe to use the device, until we receive RAM.
> that device is our main storage.
>
> does data retransmit when ECC errors happen.
> I don't want to have data corruption.

You are not talking about data transission - but storage

If two or more bit errors occur then ECC is not able to correct them and 
you are likely to get data corruption.

Regards
Lance

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> Matthew Miller wrote:
>>  On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 09:57:12AM -0300, Centos wrote:
>> 
>> >  Has any one have any experience in ECC RAM Errors.
>> >  we are seeing ECC fault Errors but I am not sure if it can be related to 
>> >  RAM it self or
>> >  it is related to bad connection and noise.
>> >  please let me know if you have a good document regarding ECC Errors,
>> >  specially I want to know if data will be retransmitted when error 
>> >  happens.
>> >  02:00:31, Thursday, 10/11/2007
>> > :  EXCEPTION: ECC Error Interrupt (Two or more Bit Error)
>> >  0C18:00020001 0C68:00000000 Lcause:74630001 Lerr:1C855F82
>> > 
>> 
>>
>>  Change the memory; see if the errors persist.
>>
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