Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 14:40:09 -0500 (EST) From: "matthew c. mead" <mmead@goof.com> To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Non Parity Ram Message-ID: <199503171940.OAA00756@goof.com> In-Reply-To: <199503171903.LAA19237@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Mar 17, 95 11:03:08 am
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Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> >
> > What will FreeBSD do with Non Parity ram? I have some of this. I haven't
> > been getting parity errors or anything, but I'm kind of curious if it's going
> > to cause problems...
> If your motherboard supports non parity ram it will work, the real down
> side is that if a memory error does occur you wan't know about it as
> it will not generate a NMI so that FreeBSD can gracefully panic. Instead
> something will just go wrong some place, without a clue as to why it
> happened.
Hmm. The ram seems to be behaving (no odd problems), and I like having
52M vs. 20M, so I'm going to try to live with it and offload it on some dos
user for parity ram at some point :-)
-matt
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