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DateSat, 1 Oct 2005 18:22:47 -0300
FromRogério Brito <>
SubjectRe: Strange disk corruption with Linux >= 2.6.13
Hi, Ondrej and others,

On Sep 27 2005, Ondrej Zary wrote:
> I have a Socket 7 board somewhere with bad L2 cache - it was unstable
> but memtest was unable to find anything.

Right.

> However, GoldMemory found some errors - they disappeared after
> disabling L2 cache and crashes disappeared too.

I have not yet tried disabling the cache on my case (since both L1 and
L2 caches here are integrated into the processor). May be a possibility,
though.

> It's not free but at least shareware - you can find it at
> http://www.goldmemory.cz/

Thank you very much for this hint. It indeed found problems that
memtest86+ didn't find. I think that it would be nice to have some of
those tests integrated in memtest86+.


Thanks again,

-- 
Rogério Brito : rbrito@ime.usp.br : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito
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