Re: libata badness

[Brad Campbell]

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
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