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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To: Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu>
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Subject: Re: parity errors
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On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, Satoshi Asami wrote:

>  * > two lockups (no message on console).  I disabled parity check in the
>  * > BIOS, and world aborted once with a sh seg-faulting and once with
>  * > a syntax error from make.
> 
>  *   They are true parity simms right?  
> 
> I think so.  There are 36 identical-looking chips on each module.
> I've never seen such big SIMMs before.

  It is hard to find motherboards that support SIMMs with that many chips.
Most are 24 or less.

Tom