On 03 March, 2010 - casper....@sun.com sent me these 0,8K bytes: > > >Is there a method to view the status of the rams ecc single or double bit > >errors? I would like to > confirm that ecc on my xeon e5520 and ecc ram are performing their role since > memtest is ambiguous. > > > > > >I am running memory test on a p6t6 ws, e5520 xeon, 2gb samsung ecc modules > >and this is what is on > the screen: > > > >Chipset: Core IMC (ECC : Detect / Correct) > > > >However, further down "ECC" is identified as being "off". Yet there is a > >column for "ECC Errs". > > > >I don't know how to interpret this. Is ECC active or not? > > Off but only disabled by memtest, I believe.
Memtest doesn't want potential errors to be hidden by ECC, so it disables ECC to see them if they occur. > > You can enable it in the memtest menu. > > Casper > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
