From owner-freebsd-smp Sun Jun 21 22:19:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA15944 for freebsd-smp-outgoing; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 22:19:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles314.castles.com [208.214.167.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA15901; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 22:19:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA02759; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 18:53:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199806220153.SAA02759@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 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 ?? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 22 Jun 1998 00:41:55 +0200." <199806212241.AAA01080@sos.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 18:53:22 -0700 From: Mike Smith Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id WAA15918 Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message