Re: libata badness

Brad Campbell
2004-10-05T04:49:30Z

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