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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Nick Martens <nickm@kabelfoon.nl>
Cc: vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.18 Boot problem
Date: 19 Apr 2002 13:47:21 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1r8lb4gja.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3CB1B505.2010505@kabelfoon.nl> <200204100517.g3A5HhX04634@Port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> <3CB5F98C.7010206@kabelfoon.nl> <200204121056.g3CAuQX13845@Port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> <3CBDB4E2.3050406@kabelfoon.nl>

Nick Martens <nickm@kabelfoon.nl> writes:

> Sorry for the long time without responding but I haven't had any time lately
> I'm not sure how to solve it yet I don't know about that ECC mem problem but are
> 
> there any other devices for which this is typical behaviour or even some BIOS
> setting which may cause this
> 
> 
> 
> Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> > On 11 April 2002 19:01, Nick Martens wrote:
> >
> >>I've tried to do the break thing and then boot after 2 minutes, but the
> >>problem remains. Is it passible that due to the HW-reset some device
> >>gets resetted too and works fine afterwards ???
> > Yes, I can imagine some hw which needs to be warm to operate properly.
> > It may be unable to reset/init in cold state.
> > Is it true that some types of (ECC?) memory need several read passes over them
> 
> > to initialize?

ECC memory must be written to ensure the ECC bits are in a consistent
state but that should just take a second or two.

Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2002-04-19 19:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-08 15:19 2.4.18 Boot problem Nick Martens
2002-04-08 20:32 ` Nick Martens
2002-04-09 14:43   ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-04-09 10:18     ` Guillaume Gimenez
2002-04-09 16:01       ` Nick Martens
2002-04-09 15:52     ` Nick Martens
     [not found]       ` <200204100517.g3A5HhX04634@Port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
2002-04-11 21:01         ` Nick Martens
     [not found]           ` <200204121056.g3CAuQX13845@Port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
2002-04-17 17:46             ` Nick Martens
2002-04-19 19:47               ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-04-09 19:30 Andrew Burgess

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