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To: Nick Martens <nickm@kabelfoon.nl>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.18 Boot problem
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Date: 19 Apr 2002 13:47:21 -0600
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Nick Martens <nickm@kabelfoon.nl> writes:

> Sorry for the long time without responding but I haven't had any time lately
> I'm not sure how to solve it yet I don't know about that ECC mem problem but are
> 
> there any other devices for which this is typical behaviour or even some BIOS
> setting which may cause this
> 
> 
> 
> Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> > On 11 April 2002 19:01, Nick Martens wrote:
> >
> >>I've tried to do the break thing and then boot after 2 minutes, but the
> >>problem remains. Is it passible that due to the HW-reset some device
> >>gets resetted too and works fine afterwards ???
> > Yes, I can imagine some hw which needs to be warm to operate properly.
> > It may be unable to reset/init in cold state.
> > Is it true that some types of (ECC?) memory need several read passes over them
> 
> > to initialize?

ECC memory must be written to ensure the ECC bits are in a consistent
state but that should just take a second or two.

Eric
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