On Friday 04 April 2008 18:32:57 Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Friday 04 April 2008 09:27, David C. Rankin wrote:
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Anders
Well, your right as usual about my understanding. What I can't get my mind around is the fact that the mce(s) go away as long as the driver isn't loaded. I guess that's possible if the driver is calling hardware that doesn't get called otherwise. However, it just seems that if the mce(s) go away if the driver isn't loaded, the the driver or the systems response to the driver was the problem and not hardware.
The driver tells the hardware, among other things, where to transfer data via DMA. Such transfers are done asynchronously and if the driver gives bad addresses or transfer sizes to such a DMA-equipped card, then that card's actions (carrying out the driver's instructions) can cause "hardware" errors.
I don't think that will trigger an MCE though Anders -- Madness takes its toll -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org