From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 13 11:08:10 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA22343 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 13 Apr 1995 11:08:10 -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 LAA22337 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 1995 11:08:07 -0700 Received: from orion.stars.sed.monmouth.army.mil ([158.9.11.65]) by wcarchive.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA06554 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 1995 11:08:02 -0700 Message-Id: <199504131808.LAA06554@wcarchive.cdrom.com> Received: by orion.stars.sed.monmouth.army.mil (1.37.109.11/16.2) id AA003496292; Thu, 13 Apr 1995 14:04:52 -0400 From: william pechter ILEX Subject: Re: MEMORY TEST PREMATURELY REMOVED? To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes), FreeBSD-hackers@wcarchive.cdrom.com (FreeBSD-hackers) Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 14:04:52 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <199504131720.KAA10607@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Apr 13, 95 10:20:58 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1066 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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 :-) :-) I'm really surprized about that myself... I found AMI was better than Pheonix on the memory test. I don't know how good Award was. Actually, they all followed IBM's BAD lead on this one. Bill ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Pechter |Systems Administrator | Ilex Systems |170 Patterson Ave | Shrewsbury, New Jersey 07702 908-532-2369 |pechter@sesd.ilex.com | pechter@stars.sed.monmouth.army.mil