BL> In a general sense, I never did see any point in parity. If a
 BL> system is so unreliable it needs 12.5% redundancy then 12.5% is
 BL> not enough! The minimum workable redundancy is 100% - or you
 BL> may as well not bother.

 PE> It isn't redundancy, it's designed to see if an error has
 PE> occurred, ie the memory has been corrupted.

  How does that work? If the other 8 chips handle one bit each, then
how does the one-bit in the parity chip keep track on 8? I assumed
that it had to work on averages... a false parity meant it was likely
one of the others had failed too.

Regards,
Bob
 
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