Core volatility

From: Ron Hudson <ron.hudson_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: Mon Jun 28 14:22:57 2004

Hi,

A suggestion from my dad, Can you re-locate your bootstrap. If you do
do the same words zero out or do the new locations?


On Jun 28, 2004, at 10:00 AM, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:

>> From: "Wai-Sun Chia" <waisun.chia_at_hp.com>
>>
>> I have MM11-DP (16kW parity core) in my /04 which seems to have a
>> little
>> problem.
>>
>> Several locations which I've checked seems to be losing content (core
>> is
>> supposed to be non-volatile). I've been debugging custom bootloaders
>> for the past week and it has since gone past annoying. It's like 3
>> locations out of 50 that are always reverting back to 000000 after a
>> reboot.
>>
>> Perhaps it's the driver logic to these 3 particular cores that are not
>> functioning properly? Or is it the cores itself?
>>
>>
>> --
>> /wai-sun
>>
>
> Hi
> It is more likely that a spurious write pulse is happening
> when you power off. On my computer, you need to stop the
> processor first before turning it off. If I don't do this,
> a few bits get corrupted.
> Dwight
>
>
Received on Mon Jun 28 2004 - 14:22:57 BST