Re: fs corruption caused by memory module

Marc Mutz (Marc@Mutz.com)
Wed, 07 Jul 1999 12:21:34 +0200

Steffen Evers wrote:
>
> I've experienced some problems with my new 128 MB DIMM memory module
> that produced also a fs corruption:
<snip>
> After that I've tried other memory modules (64 MB and 128 MB) and there
> was no problem at all.
<snip>
> A safe way to get a kernel panic was to mkfs with bad sector check under
> 2.0.36 for a partion of 900MB.
<snip>

Hi Steffen!

Have you tried to compile the kernel with the setup that caused the
kernel panic? e2fsck and make {,b}zImage are real stress test for the
memory subsystem and are often the applications that show you your
hardware failures, although win et al. seem to run fine.
I'd get a new DIMM from the vendor.

Marc

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