Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 02:59:22 +0100 From: Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop@ntlworld.com> To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions !!!! <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [(borderline) OT]: memtest question Message-ID: <20150831015922.GA6804@milliways> In-Reply-To: <55E3AFB4.9050607@hiwaay.net> References: <55E3AFB4.9050607@hiwaay.net>
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On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 08:42:22PM -0453, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > > > I downloaded Passmark memtest v6.0.0 some weeks ago & dd'ed it to a USB > stick & used it to memtest a box I was then building, AMD 4256EE Opteron > based server. Everything went AOK (IIRC) & the box is now in service. I am > doing another one now (AMD A8 6500 CPU based) & the memtest seems to be > stuck. I downloaded memtest86+ lastest from their site (5.0.1) & want to > make another USB memtest stick out of it. I wound up going to the Passmark > version back when because I could never get a bootable USB stick configured > from this box (FreeBSD 9.3R-p24 now, ~p9 back then). I wound up using > Passmark's disk image, dd-ing it to a USB stick under Linux, & all went > well. The file I downloaded is called 'memtest86+-5.01.bin.gz' & file says > it is just a compressed '.bin' file: > I had never heard of passmark memtest until you mentioned it, but it appears to be the current version of memtest86, unless I am mistaken? Om ny current machines I happen to use memtest86+, but on _none_ of them does the "use all processors" variant run for more than a couple of minutes. So, do you really _need_ memtest86+5.01 ? Mine are all installed to /boot from linux, so I cannot offer any suggestions about how to install to a stick. But in theory, both are variants of the same test routine, and therefore either variant is *probably* good-enough for most people ? ĸen -- Il Porcupino Nil Sodomy Est! (if you will excuse my latatian) aka "The hedgehog song"
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