On Monday 17 February 2003 01:58 pm, Phil Payne wrote: > It's surprising how many PCI cards don't propagate parity.
And parity isn't even all that good for detecting errors. Worse, what do you do if you detect a parity error on a RAM location? You have no correction code with parity -- you need Hamming or some other ECC code for that. So with the parity situation, we have a system that's intrinsically not all that good, and then we compound the problem by not fully implementing it, as Phil points out. I wonder if that would impact reliability? Scott (Now removing tongue from cheek) -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scott D. Courtney, Senior Engineer Sine Nomine Associates [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sinenomine.net/
