Re: Strange write errors on FAT32 partition (maybe an FAT32 bug?!)

[Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>]

Ar Iau, 2006-11-09 am 23:08 +0100, ysgrifennodd Christoph Anton
Mitterer:
> And I've already had diff errors again,..
> so if there had been some parity issue it should have been logged, right?

If it was a PCI side parity error yes. If you have dodgy memory then the
K8 will MCE and report that if the MCE code is loaded. If the memory is
non ECC or the CPU doesn't support ECC memory you'll get silent strange
behaviour, but a long run of memtest86 can usually find any main memory
problems.

Alan

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