From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Mar 14 9: 5:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16C6937B6CF for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 09:05:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA40507; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 11:05:29 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 11:05:28 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Dillon To: James FitzGibbon Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PC800 ram ? In-Reply-To: <20000314110541.D15278@targetnet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, James FitzGibbon wrote: > I've search the -questions, -current and -hardware lists to no avail; can > anyone give me a definitive answer as to whether FreeBSD runs on systems > using PC800 (RAMBUS) memory ? Also, if there are any outstanding issues > with this memory, I've love to hear about them. FreeBSD works just fine on such systems. The only "outstanding issue" that you will have is that RAMBUS DRAM is proprietary, expensive, and is no longer supported by Intel (or any other PC chipset manufacturer for that matter) in their chipset roadmaps for future chipsets. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For Intel x86 and Alpha architectures. ( http://www.freebsd.org ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message