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From: mat@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Mike Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: VAX Memory Test
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Date: 9 Aug 88 18:11:38 GMT
References: <3300032@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <12849@mimsy.UUCP> <1743@swlabs.UUCP> <2854@ttrdc.UUCP>
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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In article <2854@ttrdc.UUCP>, levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes:
> In article <1743@swlabs.UUCP>, jack@swlabs.UUCP (Jack Bonn) writes:
> # On a high reliability system we designed, we had an ECC error "gleaner"
> # which would read and write successive memory locations in order to correct
> # soft single bit errors before alpha particles (or whatever) changed them 
> # into double bit errors and made them uncorrectable.
> # Is there a more proper name for this?  To me a "gleaner" brings to mind
> # someone working at the feet of the grim reaper.  Not too pleasant a 
> # thought.

On our systems we call it storage "patrol." Has a nice ring to it?
-- 
Mike Taylor                               ...!{hplabs,amdcad,sun}!amdahl!mat

[ This may not reflect my opinion, let alone anyone else's.  ]