Re: RANT: Why Sun is losing to Linux

Josh McKee <jtmckee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

The animosity generated by forcing someone to pay to re-enable their
hardware would result in that person avoiding all Sun solutions. If Sun
were to requirement me to pay to fix this problem, which I am happy to
say doesn't appear to be the problem I thought it was, I wouldn't want
to do business with a company like that.

The "wrong CHS" case is supposed to be rare. The feature is relatively
recent and as such I'm certain it is under continous reassessment.

It also prevent people from easily clearing the CHS values from dodgy
DIMMs and selling them on.

It seems that there were a number of things which led me to an incorrect
conclusion about how these system recover from a fault. I am happy to
say that once I finally replaced the actual fault DIMM the system
brought the memory bank back online as I would expect. Already the
purchase of this system has paid off.

That is good to hear.

In some way the inability to clear CHS values without Sun Service
has helped you determine that you swapped out the wrong DIMMs.

Had it been easy, you wouldn't have thought twice about it; possibly
tossed two good DIMMs only to find the system starting to complain
about the same DIMMs again.

Casper
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