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Date:      Sun, 21 Jun 1998 18:53:22 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        sos@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), jkh@time.cdrom.com, kedar@asacomputers.com, smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: TYAN 1668 anyone ?? 
Message-ID:  <199806220153.SAA02759@antipodes.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 22 Jun 1998 00:41:55 %2B0200." <199806212241.AAA01080@sos.freebsd.dk> 

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> In reply to Mike Smith who wrote:
> > > 
> > > Well, I'm using ONLY Hyundai 32M/60ns SIMMs here they are of prime
> > > quality, so I'm sure its not memory related...
> > 
> > Hyundai memory parts are not "prime quality" by any stretch of the 
> > imagination.  You're welcome to ask about my experiences with their 
> > parts offline, but basically there is no one vendor you can point at 
> > and say "their parts are all prime quality".
> 
> We are not talking about the same memory then, thats for sure.

I guess not.  We were looking at banded parts from various brokers, and 
comparing their real performance against the documentation.

> We have run tests on these suckers and they are amoung the
> better parts available. Granted they also market their rejects
> and THOSE I would not touch....

The hard part appears to be guaranteeing that you're getting the right
parts from one batch to the next, and this is what I was getting at -
when you go to an assembled-memory broker, you have no easy way of being
sure that the modules you buy are assembled from non-reject parts.

-- 
\\  Sometimes you're ahead,       \\  Mike Smith
\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
\\  The race is long, and in the  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\  end it's only with yourself.  \\  msmith@cdrom.com



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