This is a discussion on Re: Correctable ECC errors on ES45 - DEC ; > Memtest reports 0 soft errors on the memory, doesn't > a correctable ECC error count as a "soft error"? I don't know how Memtest defines it but I wouldn't consider an error corrected by ECC to be a soft ...
> Memtest reports 0 soft errors on the memory, doesn't
> a correctable ECC error count as a "soft error"?
I don't know how Memtest defines it but I wouldn't consider
an error corrected by ECC to be a soft error. I'd consider a soft error
to be one where a memory location gave an uncorrectable error
on some passes but not all.
Tom Lake