Re: how can a bit be off in memory?



The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Charles T. Smith wrote:

.... snip ...

So the image on disk was fine, but the image as READ by the system
was corrupt, until you rebooted.

Actually, I guess I'll buy the arguments of the ECC (EMA?) posters
that it shows why ECC is a good thing.

I don't. I am fairly certain you had a corrupt transfer off the disk.

Doubtful. Disk extractions are checked (via a checksum/etc).
Without ECC memory errors go totally unnoticed, except for fouled
results.

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