Re: Oops assist...

Simon Kenyon (simon@koala.ie)
Wed, 12 May 1999 11:35:50 +0100 (BST)

On 11-May-99 Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> Because that's how it works! Every memory access, read or write, adjusts
> ECC data. If it's a write, the compare-with-previous (actually an XOR)
> operation is skipped.

doesn't it really depend on the memory controller design?

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