Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Oct 2005 09:48:24 +0200 | From | Sander <> | Subject | EDAC (was: Re: 2.6.14-rc5-mm1) |
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Alan Cox wrote (ao): > On Maw, 2005-10-25 at 10:55 -0700, Avuton Olrich wrote: > > After upgrading to 2.6.14-rc5-mm1 I have been greeted with: > > > > PCI-Bridge- Detected Parity Error on 0000:00:08.0 0000:00:08.0 > > > ... I probably get a new one every minute or so. Is this new, perhaps > > part of the new EDAC stuff? And what kind of adverse effect does this > > have on my computer (the actual parity error)? > > If the parity error is real then it would indicate a bad PCI transfer > has occurred and data corrupted in the transfer. Unfortunately because > some vendors don't use PCI parity checking much and some card vendors > don't debug their products except on that OS there are some cards that > generate spurious parity errors. > > Can you send an lspci -vxx. That'll help the EDAC folk build up a view > of what needs to be blacklisted.
Stupid question: should EDAC work on a Via Epia board? Because I see the "Detected Parity Error" messages too (and a lot of them), but figured that the option is just 'not an option' :-)
If it should work I'll be happy to send the error and lspci if that helps.
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