From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 23 10:44:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dsinw.com (dsinw.com [207.149.40.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D368514F18 for ; Sun, 23 May 1999 10:44:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@dsinw.com) Received: (from hamellr@localhost) by dsinw.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) id KAA01775; Sun, 23 May 1999 10:42:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 10:42:54 -0700 (PDT) From: rick hamell To: Richard Belanger Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using memory extenders with FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199905222113.RAA12993@bc.seflin.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Anybody tried FreeBSD with SIMM memory extenders? Probably called > SimmExtender or similar. They are cards that plug in the motherboard > where, in turn, you can plug in more RAM modules. From a hardware standpoint these are a bad idea. They're usually cheaply made so they don't work to well, I've had to replace all but one of them that I've ever seen. The other problem is that you have to be careful what chips you put on them. For instance, you usually can't put in 1 meg ram chips that have 8 or 9 chips on each one, most motherboards limited the number of those chips. For the price of RAM these days it's by far better to spend the extra money. Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message