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 -- Matthew C. Mead -> Virginia Tech Center for Transportation Research - -> Multiple Platform System and Network Administration Work Related -> mmead@ctr.vt.edu | mmead@goof.com <- All Other ---- ------- WWW -> http://www.goof.com/~mmead --- -----
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