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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Why one should buy parity memory for reliability?
Date: 2 Oct 1996 11:49:56 GMT
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dan@dnn.rockefeller.edu (Dan Ts'o) wrote:

> : If the Board supports the parity memory and error occurs then in
> : theory the OS should be notified and the access should be reapeted.
> 
> 	I don't know if the FreeBSD kernel attempts any repeats.

No, it panics.

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j