On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Brian Chabot wrote:
> Also memtest86 isn't meant for ECC RAM, which is what we have....

  I think you would need special hardware to test ECC RAM.  Even if you
could shut off the ECC function, you would then have two bits of parity
information per byte that wasn't getting tested.

  Shouldn't ECC RAM, well, check and correct for errors automatically?  :-)

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