On 07/01/2014, at 6:57 AM, "Joel C. Ewing" <[email protected]> wrote:
> The first step to successful diagnosing and repair of a software failure > is to be certain it IS a software issue and not some random hardware > glitch. This is made more difficult in the Intel world by the very > thing that makes these platforms affordable - a multitude of > manufacturers of motherboards, memory, hardware interface cards and > peripherals all applying their own concept of "acceptable" engineering > design while trying to make fast and cheap hardware. Is that still the case today? Even cheap x86 blades have machine check architecture which can signal software on hardware failures. It must be over a decade or so since IBM started stuffing mainframe quality RAM modules into x86 servers, chipkill etc. 90% of server failures were due to RAM errors. You don't have to search too far to find 99.999 platforms running Intel. You'll pay for it though. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
