[Techtalk] ECC Lesson

[Liz Young]

On Saturday 20 July 2002 02:30 pm, Julie wrote:
> Well, I don't think either of us told you the most fun thing
> in the world about ECC memory -- with a lot of it you must
> write every single last bite of memory with some value before
> trying to use it or you are in big poopy trouble ...

Interesting!  Can you expand on that?  How much is a lot of it?  How 
does one write every single last bit?  Define big poopy trouble. :-)

I put a gig (that is a lot to me) of ECC RAM in my server and ran 
Memtest on it overnight to make sure there were no errors before 
installing the OS. I guess that achieved the "write every single last 
byte" part (?)  Unconsciously, my geek intuition told me to do it. 

Thanks,
-Liz