From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 13 10:22:06 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA21603 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 13 Apr 1995 10:22:06 -0700 Received: from wcarchive.cdrom.com (wcarchive.cdrom.com [192.216.191.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA21597 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 1995 10:22:04 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by wcarchive.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA25340 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 1995 10:21:59 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id KAA10607; Thu, 13 Apr 1995 10:20:59 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199504131720.KAA10607@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: MEMORY TEST PREMATURELY REMOVED? To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 10:20:58 -0700 (PDT) Cc: pechter@stars.sed.monmouth.army.mil, davidg@Root.COM, FreeBSD-hackers@wcarchive.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <9504131659.AA23623@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Apr 13, 95 10:59:48 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1088 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > > The memory test was removed because it took too long on machines with a > > > lot of memory (a lot is >= 64MB) and wasn't effective in finding real memory > > > problems anyway. > > > > Well, it fixed my wife's OS/2 installation crash problem and her > > Linux sig 11's. Turned out to be bad memory. > > Time for a boot option, like Sun? Yea, only the person who needs to implement the real memory test is AMI, AWARD and Pheonix. I find it really disconserting that the system BIOS does such a sh*tty job of self test that programs like Synaptics DEFRAG program, and others have now gone to putting in there own memory test code to detect memory problems. Gee, I wonder how many copies of memory test programs there are in all of the DOS/Windows software on some sights Novell file server, just so tech support people don't have to answer the really strange bug reports from really strange system crashes :-) :-) -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD