Re: libata badness

[Brad Campbell <brad@wasp.net.au>]

William Knop wrote:
> 
>> This code starts:
>>
>>   0:   8b 55 04                  mov    0x4(%ebp),%edx
>>   3:   83 c1 08                  add    $0x8,%ecx
>>
>> and as %ebp is 01000000, this oopses.
>> It looks very much like a single-bit memory error (as has already been
>> suggested as a possibility).
> 
> 
> Oh my. So, I ran memcheck again for a few hours, and it checked out 
> fine. Just in case, though, I bought a replacement stick of ram. Well, 
> the oopses went away, so it must have been the ram.

For future reference, I have had errors show up after 24-36 hours of memtest86. I usually find that 
if it passes 48 hours of testing then things are looking pretty reliable. A couple of hours is 
usually too small a sample to rely on.

Brad