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Date:      Tue, 3 Sep 1996 01:55:03 +0100 (WET DST)
From:      kim@dde.dk (Kim Andersen)
To:        pechter@shell.monmouth.com (Bill/Carolyn Pechter)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: memory problem -- anyone have a FreeBSD memory test
Message-ID:  <9609030055.AA08713@edaqal-ws>
In-Reply-To: <199609022013.QAA21348@shell.monmouth.com> from "Bill/Carolyn Pechter" at Sep 2, 96 04:13:47 pm

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> Anyone have a memory test recommendation that works short of a hardware
> memory test.   I remember FreeBSD 1.5 pulled out errors on my wife's box
> that were causing crashes under OS/2 and SIG11's under Linux.
> 
> I sure miss minicomputers with real memory controllers with memory 
> address registers that latch parity errors and report the address.
> I sure miss BSD on a Vax that reported the ECC location and correction bits...

Having just been to memory error country I can understand your frustrations.
There's a linux memory testprogram somewhere on sunsite.unc.edu called
memtest86-1.1.tar.gz. It even includes src.
Quite nice, it just need a proper OS :-)

regards
kim



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